From: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.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: Fri, 20 May 2011 09:20:07 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=cPRffdaPO9tOfgpLe7W_W3V71tg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110519145147.GA14658@localhost>
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> wrote:
>> > 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?
Right. ramfs pages can not be swapped out.
But in log, anon 200M in DMA32 doesn't include unevictable 1.4GB.
So we can swap out 200M, still.
>
> Thanks,
> Fengguang
>
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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
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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
2011-05-19 15:00 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-20 0:20 ` Minchan Kim [this message]
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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