harababurel/gcsf

Out of memory: Killed process xxxx (gcsf)

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#77 opened on Mar 31, 2020

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Description

While copying large (4GB) file from mounted folder to my local disk I am seeing OOM kill.

Looks like gcsf is keeping all files in memory. I tried reducing values of cache_max_seconds , cache_max_items and cache_statfs_seconds but noo luck.

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Investigate memory allocation patterns in the FUSE handler; trace the path where file data is read and check for missing buffer limits.
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rust
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