From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SLUB 0:1 SLAB (OOM during massive parallel kernel builds)
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:34:01 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710251234.01440.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710241913220.29434@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Thursday 25 October 2007 12:15, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > [12728.701398] DMA free:8032kB min:32kB low:40kB high:48kB active:2716kB
> > inactive:2208kB present:12744kB pages_scanned:9299 all_unreclaimable?
> > yes [12728.701567] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2003 2003 2003 [12728.701654]
>
> Ummm... all unreclaimable is set! Are you mlocking the pages in memory? Or
> what causes this? All pages under writeback? What is the dirty ratio set
> to?
Why is SLUB behaving differently, though.
Memory efficiency wouldn't be the reason, would it? I mean, SLUB
should be more efficient than SLAB, plus have less data lying around
in queues.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-25 2:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-23 18:16 Alexey Dobriyan
2007-10-23 19:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-23 19:48 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-10-23 19:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-24 8:09 ` Mel Gorman
2007-10-24 19:28 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-10-25 2:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-25 2:34 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2007-10-25 2:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-25 3:06 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-23 20:04 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-10-23 20:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-23 20:41 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-10-24 16:56 ` Christoph Lameter
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