From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: mindentropy@gmail.com (mindentropy)
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:17:11 +0530
Subject: Problem with OOM killer killing process even when there is plenty of
	RAM.
Message-ID: <3149436.M7N0dGGi1Y@terranet>
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org

Hi,

  I am trying to allocate 512MB of RAM in my driver loaded as a module, but 
the OOM killer starts killing all my processes. This machine has around 24GB 
RAM and is a 8 core Xeon. The RAM is allocated in page size chunks (i.e. 
131072 chunks each of size PAGE_SIZE). I am using a 32 bit kernel with PAE 
enabled. The allocation works fine on a machine with 8GB of RAM.

Thanks.