Re: oom killer gone nuts

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Fri, Jan 21 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:09:41AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Jan 20 13:22:15 wiggum kernel: oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd1
> 
> This was a GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA allocation triggering this. However it
> didn't look so much out of DMA zone, there's 4M of ram free. Could be
> the ram was relased by another CPU in the meantime if this was SMP (or
> even by an interrupt in UP too).

It is/was UP.

> Could very well be you'll get things fixed by the lowmem_reserve patch,
> that will reserve part of the dma zone, so with it you're sure it
> couldn't have gone below 4M due slab allocs like skb.
> 
> I recommend trying again with the patches applied, the oom stuff is so
> buggy right now that it's better you apply the fixes and try again, and
> if it still happens we know it's a regression.

I've added all 6 of the OOM patches (I didn't notice that thread until
now).

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Jens Axboe