From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: peter@mysql.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VM Problems in 2.6.7 (Too active OOM Killer)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:22:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040713212204.08fda0d6.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040714041026.GX974@dualathlon.random>
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
>
> The oom killer is forbidden to run
> as long as `free` tells you that >= 4k of swap are still available to the
> OS.
That code was recently removed, so the OOM killer now kicks in if we run
out of normal zone due to pinned allocations (stack pages, etc).
This promptly caused oom-killings to occur during heavy swapstorms
with laptop_mode=1, which is as yet unfixed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-14 4:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-14 2:23 Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-14 2:40 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-14 3:20 ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-14 3:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-14 3:44 ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-14 4:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-14 4:22 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-07-14 4:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-14 4:17 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-14 23:47 ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-14 22:44 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-15 0:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-15 0:30 ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-15 0:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-15 1:54 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-15 2:13 ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-15 2:33 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-15 2:39 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-15 2:44 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-13 22:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-19 20:27 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-07-18 16:13 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-07-20 9:14 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-07-20 13:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-20 13:53 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-20 13:29 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-19 20:21 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-07-15 0:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-15 0:43 ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-15 0:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-15 1:04 ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-15 1:29 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-14 3:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
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