Sorry Joseph, I should have been clearer. It was with the mainline kernel 3.12.0-999-generic #201310090426, I never gor around to trying the rc5 kernel as you suggested - this is my company fileserver so I cannot just do immediate changes (unless of course it has just crashed and I am recovering).
I think the lock up problem now is related to bug #1237794 which I am also looking at, I have not encountered anymore memory issues. so if you wish you could close this as fixed upstream and I will continue with #1237794 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1238658 Title: rsync between two btrfs filesystems causes machines to crash with symptoms of memory leak Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Using the latest 13.10 (kernel 3.11.0-12-generic) we performed a backup which is essentially an rsync from a 6 disk array to a USB HDD - both are BTRFS filesystems After several hours the machine was unresponsive and the screen full of out of memory errors and killing lots of different processes. This was happening at the same time as bug #1237794 - the bugs may be related, they may not. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1238658/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
