Re: OOM-killer too aggressive?

[Chris Largret <largret@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 10:21 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: 
> Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> wrote:
> >
> > Chris Largret is getting repeated OOM kills because of DMA memory
> > exhaustion:
> > 
> > oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd1, order=3
> > 
> 
> This could be related to the known GFP_DMA oom on some x86_64 machines.

I'm not sure if this has any bearing on it, but the OOM Killer only does
this when I compile the kernel with SMP support.

> > Or should floppy.c be fixed so it doesn't ask for so much?
> 
> The page allocator uses 32k as the threshold for when-to-try-like-crazy.
> 
> x86_64 should probably be defining its own fd_dma_mem_alloc() which doesn't
> use GFP_DMA.
> 
> --- devel/drivers/block/floppy.c~floppy-false-oom-fix	2006-02-26 10:14:38.000000000 -0800
> +++ devel-akpm/drivers/block/floppy.c	2006-02-26 10:15:04.000000000 -0800
> @@ -278,7 +278,8 @@ static void do_fd_request(request_queue_

Sorry, this didn't help on my machine. I am running that latest kernel
pre-patch (2.6.16-rc4) for testing right now and had to modify the
offsets a little. If there's any output that would help, please let me
know.

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Chris Largret <http://daga.dyndns.org>