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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel falls apart under light memory pressure (i.e. linking vmlinux)
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 22:51:47 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110519145147.GA14658@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=9W6-JXi94rZfTtTpAt3VUiY5fNw@mail.gmail.com>

> > I had 6GB swap available, so there shouldn't have
> > been any OOM.
> 
> Yes. It's strange but we have seen such case several times, AFAIR.

I noticed that the test script mounted a "ramfs" not "tmpfs", hence
the 1.4G pages won't be swapped?

Thanks,
Fengguang

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-19 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <m2fwokj0oz.fsf@firstfloor.org>
     [not found]   ` <BANLkTikhj1C7+HXP_4T-VnJzPefU2d7b3A@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <20110512054631.GI6008@one.firstfloor.org>
     [not found]       ` <BANLkTi=fk3DUT9cYd2gAzC98c69F6HXX7g@mail.gmail.com>
2011-05-14 15:46         ` Kernel falls apart under light memory pressure (i.e. linking vmlinux) Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-14 16:53           ` Andi Kleen
     [not found]             ` <BANLkTik6SS9NH7XVSRBoCR16_5veY0MKBw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-05-14 17:43               ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-15  1:37                 ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-15 15:27                   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-15 15:59                     ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-15 22:58                       ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-16  8:51                         ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-15 16:12                     ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-17  6:00                       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-17  6:35                         ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-17 19:22                         ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-18  5:17                           ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-19  2:15                             ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-19  2:30                               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-05-19  2:41                                 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-19  2:54                               ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-19 14:16                                 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-20  0:17                                   ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-20  2:58                                   ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-20  3:12                                     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-05-20  3:38                                       ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-20  4:20                                         ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-20  5:08                                           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-05-20  5:36                                             ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-20  7:43                                               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-05-20 10:11                                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-05-20 14:11                                               ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-20 15:33                                                 ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-20 16:01                                                   ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-20 16:19                                                     ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-20 18:09                                                       ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-20 18:40                                                         ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-21 12:04                                                         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-05-21 13:34                                                           ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-21 14:14                                                             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-05-21 14:44                                                             ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-22 12:22                                                               ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-22 23:12                                                                 ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-23 16:42                                                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-05-23 17:35                                                                     ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-24  1:19                                                                   ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-24  1:34                                                                     ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-24 11:24                                                                       ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-24 11:55                                                                         ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-25  0:43                                                                           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-05-21 14:31                                                           ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-19 14:51                             ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2011-05-19 15:00                               ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-20  0:20                               ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-15 22:40                     ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-17  5:52                       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-17  6:26                         ` Minchan Kim

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