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From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH] Fix tst_pollute_memory() safety margin for huge systems
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:28:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YBFcc/lc+KkC49Gq@yuki.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2021012720143348660139@chinatelecom.cn>

Hi!
> According my test,malloc amount greater than available memory,then invoke the oom-killer.

However that does not mean that allocating MemAvailable or slightly less
than MemAvailable is safe. In fact it's not, at least that I've been
told be kernel developers. I will try to figure out something safe
enough with their help.

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-27 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-27 11:56 [LTP] [PATCH] Fix tst_pollute_memory() safety margin for huge systems Martin Doucha
2021-01-27 12:03 ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-01-27 12:14   ` liuxp11
2021-01-27 12:28     ` Cyril Hrubis [this message]
2021-01-27 12:30       ` liuxp11
2021-01-27 13:05       ` Li Wang

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