From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D99EC6B0011 for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 10:51:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 22:51:47 +0800 From: Wu Fengguang Subject: Re: Kernel falls apart under light memory pressure (i.e. linking vmlinux) Message-ID: <20110519145147.GA14658@localhost> References: <20110514165346.GV6008@one.firstfloor.org> <20110514174333.GW6008@one.firstfloor.org> <20110515152747.GA25905@localhost> <20110517060001.GC24069@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Minchan Kim Cc: Andrew Lutomirski , Andi Kleen , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , LKML , KOSAKI Motohiro , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Mel Gorman , Johannes Weiner , Rik van Riel > > 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org