From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265886AbUGOAGZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2004 20:06:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265973AbUGOAGZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2004 20:06:25 -0400 Received: from mail-relay-2.tiscali.it ([213.205.33.42]:9173 "EHLO mail-relay-2.tiscali.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265886AbUGOAGX (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2004 20:06:23 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:06:08 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Andrew Morton Cc: Peter Zaitsev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VM Problems in 2.6.7 (Too active OOM Killer) Message-ID: <20040715000608.GT974@dualathlon.random> References: <1089771823.15336.2461.camel@abyss.home> <20040714031701.GT974@dualathlon.random> <1089776640.15336.2557.camel@abyss.home> <20040713211721.05781fb7.akpm@osdl.org> <1089848823.15336.3895.camel@abyss.home> <20040714154427.14234822.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040714154427.14234822.akpm@osdl.org> X-GPG-Key: 1024D/68B9CB43 13D9 8355 295F 4823 7C49 C012 DFA1 686E 68B9 CB43 X-PGP-Key: 1024R/CB4660B9 CC A0 71 81 F4 A0 63 AC C0 4B 81 1D 8C 15 C8 E5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 03:44:27PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > If you end up pinning all of your ZONE_NORMAL pages with anonymous memory, > further GFP_KERNEL allocation attempts will go oom. exactly. Same problem happens with mlock on top of pagecache. (i.e. the old 2.4 google bug)