From: Chris Ross <chris@tebibyte.org>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Martin MOKREJ? <mmokrejs@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz>,
tglx@linutronix.de, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:30:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <419A2B3A.80702@tebibyte.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041114202155.GB2764@logos.cnet>
Marcelo Tosatti escreveu:
> If its not the case, increasing the all_unreclaimable "timer" to a higher value
> than 5 seconds will certainly delay the OOM killer such to a point where
> its not triggered until the VM reclaiming efforts make progress.
[...]
>
> Chris, can you change the "500*HZ" in mm/vmscan.c balance_pgdat() function
> to "1000*HZ" and see what you get, please?
Changed. FWIW it's been running happily for hours without a single oom,
including the normally guaranteed build UML test. I'll leave it running
and see how it goes. The daily cron run is a usually a popular time for
killing off a few essential daemons (ntpd, sshd &c), in fact I think the
OOM Killer actually looks forward to it :)
Regards,
Chris R.
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From: Chris Ross <chris@tebibyte.org>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Martin MOKREJ? <mmokrejs@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz>,
tglx@linutronix.de, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:30:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <419A2B3A.80702@tebibyte.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041114202155.GB2764@logos.cnet>
Marcelo Tosatti escreveu:
> If its not the case, increasing the all_unreclaimable "timer" to a higher value
> than 5 seconds will certainly delay the OOM killer such to a point where
> its not triggered until the VM reclaiming efforts make progress.
[...]
>
> Chris, can you change the "500*HZ" in mm/vmscan.c balance_pgdat() function
> to "1000*HZ" and see what you get, please?
Changed. FWIW it's been running happily for hours without a single oom,
including the normally guaranteed build UML test. I'll leave it running
and see how it goes. The daily cron run is a usually a popular time for
killing off a few essential daemons (ntpd, sshd &c), in fact I think the
OOM Killer actually looks forward to it :)
Regards,
Chris R.
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Thread overview: 126+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-11 11:29 [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-11 11:29 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-11 15:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-11 15:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-11 12:38 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-11 12:38 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-11 16:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-11 16:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-11 13:56 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-11 13:56 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-11 21:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-11 21:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-11 19:19 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-11 19:19 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-11 17:42 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-11 17:42 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-11 21:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-11 21:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-12 11:13 ` fix for mpol mm corruption on tmpfs Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-12 11:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-11 21:57 ` [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills Chris Ross
2004-11-11 21:57 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-12 16:52 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-12 16:52 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-12 23:56 ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-12 23:56 ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-13 23:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-13 23:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-14 9:44 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-14 9:44 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-14 10:02 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-14 10:02 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-14 17:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-14 17:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-14 17:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-14 17:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-14 18:16 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-14 18:16 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-14 18:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-14 18:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-14 20:21 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-14 20:21 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-16 16:30 ` Chris Ross [this message]
2004-11-16 16:30 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-17 9:08 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-17 9:23 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-17 9:23 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-17 6:06 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-17 6:06 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-17 6:08 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-17 6:08 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-17 6:38 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-17 6:38 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-17 11:04 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-17 11:04 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-17 10:26 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-17 10:26 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-17 10:50 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-17 10:50 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-17 7:09 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-17 7:09 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-17 11:49 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-17 11:49 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-17 12:09 ` Rik van Riel
2004-11-17 12:09 ` Rik van Riel
2004-11-17 13:12 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-17 13:12 ` Chris Ross
[not found] ` <419CD8C1.4030506@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz>
2004-11-18 21:16 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-18 21:16 ` Andrew Morton
[not found] ` <419D25B5.1060504@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz>
[not found] ` <419D2987.8010305@cyberone.com.au>
2004-11-19 0:03 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2004-11-19 0:03 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2004-11-19 0:08 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-19 0:08 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-19 8:09 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-19 8:09 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-19 16:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
[not found] ` <419E821F.7010601@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz>
2004-11-20 10:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-11-20 10:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-11-20 10:45 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2004-11-20 10:45 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2004-11-20 11:29 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2004-11-20 11:29 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2004-11-20 13:29 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-11-20 13:29 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-11-20 21:19 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2004-11-20 21:19 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2004-11-21 11:53 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-11-21 11:53 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-11-21 12:17 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2004-11-21 12:17 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2004-11-21 13:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-11-21 13:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-11-22 10:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-11-22 10:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-11-23 7:41 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2004-11-23 7:41 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2004-11-23 10:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-11-23 10:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-11-24 15:52 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2004-11-24 15:52 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2004-11-24 16:36 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-11-24 16:36 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-14 16:04 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2004-12-14 16:04 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2004-12-14 17:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 17:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 23:30 ` Nick Piggin
2004-12-14 23:30 ` Nick Piggin
2004-12-14 23:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 23:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-15 0:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-15 0:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-15 0:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-15 0:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-15 0:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-15 0:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-11-21 19:01 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-21 19:01 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-22 12:15 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-22 12:15 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-22 8:35 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-22 8:35 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-16 8:37 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-16 8:37 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-17 3:45 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-17 3:45 ` Andrew Morton
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