Re: OOM-Killer kills too much with 2.6.32.2

[KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>]

> On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:03:06 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > Please consider to revert such commit at once. Lots people reported
> > the same issue.
> > I really hope to stop bug report storm.
> 
> Your CC did not reference the problem that you were discussing, nor that
> it is even easier to trigger an OOM without the shrinker. Memory
> exhaustion due to the excess usage of surfaces from userspace is not a new
> issuer. So what is the problem you have encountered and how does running
> the OOM killer earlier fix the issue of triggering the OOM killer?

Why do you bother easy googling?

example.

1) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14933
	Subject    : OOM killer unexpectedly called with kernel 2.6.32
	Submitter  : "A. Boulan" <arnaud.boulan@libertysurf.fr>
	Date       : 2009-12-24 23:42
	References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126169821317492&w=4

2) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15015
	Subject: blank screen at random times in laptop when sitting idle
	From:    Jithin Emmanuel
	Date:    2010-01-09 16:48:23

	see comment #2

3) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15058
	From:   Michael Reinelt
	Date:   2010-01-14 16:39:51

4) Subject: Re: OOM kernel behaviour
   From: David John <davidjon@xenontk.org>
   Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:04:24 +0530

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