Re: [Xen-users] Re: oom-killer keeps killing big un-tars

[Andrew Thompson <xenuser@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please excuse the other email, brain fart...

Stephan Seitz wrote:
<snip> (I'll respond to the snipped sections after testing.)

> Maybe it has to do with mount options for reiserfs, which was the
> target fs for all oom-killer actions.
>
> You seem to have reiserfs, too. Could you mount it with data=writeback
> and try again? This is the fastest (and in some way unsafest) option.
> Your write performance will increase very much. I'm normally using
> data=journal, the safest and slowest option.
> Maybe some other guys can tell, if journalling code is unswappable and
> can lead to oom-killer.


When you say "unsafest", that's only for the partition that's being 
mounted in that fashion, correct?
So, if I only mount this drive I'm trying to untar this file on with 
data=writeback, I won't be unwittingly putting my other partitions at 
risk will I? (I'm hoping that this option can be set for a specific 
partition and not for the entire OS.)
--
Andrew Thompson
http://aktzero.com/

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