From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
Stuart Foster <smf.linux@ntlworld.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug 42578] Kernel crash "Out of memory error by X" when using NTFS file system on external USB Hard drive
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:34:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120214123424.a4162251.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1202141354130.25634@router.home>
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:00:47 -0600 (CST)
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Mel Gorman wrote:
>
> > Thanks Stuart. Rik, Andrew, should the following be improved in some
> > way? I did not come to any decent conclusion on what to do with pages in
> > the inactive list with buffer_head as we are already stripping them when
> > the pages reach the end of the LRU.
>
> We have made the statement in the past that configurations > 8GB on 32
> bit should not be considered stable or supported? The fact is the more
> memory you add on 32 bit the less low mem memory is available and the more
> likely that an OOM will occur for any number of reasons.
I have memories of 16G being usable in earlier kernels.
Also, if an 8G machine works OK at present, it's only by luck.
sizeof(buffer_head) is around 100, so it takes 1.6GB of buffer_heads to
support 8G of 512-byte blocksize pagecache.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <bug-42578-27@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
[not found] ` <201201180922.q0I9MCYl032623@bugzilla.kernel.org>
2012-01-19 20:24 ` [Bug 42578] Kernel crash "Out of memory error by X" when using NTFS file system on external USB Hard drive Andrew Morton
2012-02-10 16:37 ` Mel Gorman
2012-02-10 17:01 ` Rik van Riel
2012-02-14 12:17 ` Mel Gorman
2012-02-11 21:28 ` Stuart Foster
2012-02-14 13:09 ` Mel Gorman
2012-02-14 20:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-02-14 20:34 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-02-14 20:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-02-14 20:37 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-15 13:57 ` Mel Gorman
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