From: James Stevens <James.Stevens@jrcs.co.uk>
To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KVM and the OOM-Killer
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 14:01:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BED49C5.1070904@jrcs.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100514122801.GH3296@balbir.in.ibm.com>
> I understand, You could potentially encapsulate all else - except your
> VM's in a small cgroup and frequently reclaim from there using the
> memory cgroup. If drop caches works for you, that is good too. I am
> surprised that cache allocations are causing lowmem exhaustion.
I'm suirprised that LOWMEM exhaustion causes oom-killer (when HIGH &
SWAP are half empty) but there you go, life is full of surprises ;)
Of course, it could be something else, but its definitely disk i/o that
triggers the oom-killer and clearing the cache stops it from happening
(2.6.31.12) - any alternative explain really really welcome.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-14 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-13 12:20 KVM and the OOM-Killer James Stevens
2010-05-13 12:39 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-13 13:39 ` James Stevens
2010-05-13 13:53 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-13 18:55 ` David S. Ahern
2010-05-13 13:42 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2010-05-14 7:33 ` Athanasius
2010-05-14 8:10 ` James Stevens
2010-05-14 8:21 ` Balbir Singh
2010-05-14 8:43 ` James Stevens
2010-05-14 12:28 ` Balbir Singh
2010-05-14 13:01 ` James Stevens [this message]
2010-05-14 8:19 ` Balbir Singh
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