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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Excessive xfs_inode allocations trigger OOM killer
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:51:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160920215147.GA31614@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8f2pd2d.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>

Hi Florian,

can you check if you have CONFIG_COMPACTION enabled in your kernel
config?  There have been some regressions in the VM code lately that
made me see similar OOM killer rampage runs, which went away after I
followed some linux-mm advise to turn it on.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-20 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-20 19:48 Excessive xfs_inode allocations trigger OOM killer Florian Weimer
2016-09-20 20:30 ` Dave Chinner
2016-09-20 20:56   ` Florian Weimer
2016-09-20 21:46     ` Dave Chinner
2016-09-21  5:45       ` Florian Weimer
2016-09-21  8:04       ` Michal Hocko
2016-09-21  8:06         ` Michal Hocko
2016-09-26 17:33         ` Florian Weimer
2016-09-26 20:02           ` Michal Hocko
2016-10-03 17:35             ` Florian Weimer
2016-10-03 17:54               ` Michal Hocko
2016-09-20 21:51 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-09-20 21:54   ` Florian Weimer

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