From: Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@mail.muni.cz>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: Stefan Schmidt <zaphodb@zaphods.net>,
Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:05:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041116170527.GA3525@mail.muni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041116093311.GD11482@logos.cnet>
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 07:33:11AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > I took the default from 2.6.10-rc1-bk19 with your patch and doubled it. No
> > luck with the following values subsequently applied:
> > #vm.min_free_kbytes=3831
> > #vm.min_free_kbytes=7662
> > #vm.min_free_kbytes=15324
> > #vm.min_free_kbytes=61296
> > vm.min_free_kbytes=65535
> > Did not help against the page allocation errors or boosting up the machines
> > performance.
>
> Nick, such high reservations should have protected the system from OOM.
> Definately. I suspect XFS is unable to handle OOM graciously, or some other
> problem.
It seems that both Stefan and me are using XFS. Does someone have this problems
with another filesystem? Unfortunately I cannot change fs. Can you Stefen?
--
Lukáš Hejtmánek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-16 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-03 22:24 Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures (Part 2) Stefan Schmidt
2004-11-04 12:17 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-04 18:18 ` Stefan Schmidt
2004-11-09 16:41 ` Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-09 22:35 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-11-09 22:46 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-09 22:44 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-11-09 20:33 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-10 20:35 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-11-10 21:09 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-10 21:24 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-11-10 21:47 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-10 21:28 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-11-10 18:11 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-11 1:04 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-11-11 21:44 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-11-12 12:09 ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-13 14:47 ` Stefan Schmidt
2004-11-16 9:33 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-16 17:05 ` Lukas Hejtmanek [this message]
2004-11-21 1:43 ` Stefan Schmidt
2004-11-21 2:42 ` Stefan Schmidt
2004-12-02 19:54 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-12-02 20:25 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-02 21:03 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-12-02 22:31 ` Stefan Schmidt
2004-12-02 22:48 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-12-02 22:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-02 23:18 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-12-03 0:18 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-03 12:11 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-12-03 12:17 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-12-07 22:52 ` Nick Piggin
2004-12-07 22:59 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-12-07 23:05 ` Nick Piggin
2004-12-08 11:18 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-12-08 11:23 ` Nick Piggin
2004-12-08 11:46 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-12-08 13:14 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-12-09 8:52 ` Nick Piggin
2004-12-09 9:02 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-12-09 10:29 ` Nick Piggin
2004-12-09 10:37 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-12-03 6:18 ` Nathan Scott
2004-12-03 7:06 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-07 11:17 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-12-08 0:15 ` Nathan Scott
2004-12-08 0:36 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-12-03 10:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-12-03 10:58 ` P
2004-12-03 17:11 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-09 23:52 ` Stefan Schmidt
2004-11-10 1:27 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm4 -1 EAGAIN after allocation failure was: " Stefan Schmidt
2004-11-10 1:39 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-10 2:03 ` Stefan Schmidt
2004-11-10 2:21 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-10 4:24 ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-10 10:28 ` Stefan Schmidt
2004-11-10 12:06 ` Stefan Schmidt
2004-11-10 8:58 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-10 12:48 ` Stefan Schmidt
2004-11-10 10:56 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-11 1:23 ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-11 18:31 ` jhigdon
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