From: Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Cameron Schaus <cam@schaus.ca>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.20 OOM with 8Gb RAM
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:39:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070413223935.GA6783@metaxa.reflex> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070412121553.c7fd3249.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:15:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> All of ZONE_NORMAL got used by ramdisk, and networking wants to
> allocate a page from ZONE_NORMAL. An oom-killing is the correct
> response, although probably not effective.
>
> ramdisk is a nasty thing - cannot you use ramfs or tmpfs?
What do you mean by "nasty thing"? I've heard that about loopback too.
If I want to run a system entirely from ram with a compressed filesystem
image mounted on /, is it better to store that image in a ramdisk, or on
a tmpfs and mount it via loopback?
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-13 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-12 17:38 2.6.20 OOM with 8Gb RAM Cameron Schaus
2007-04-12 19:15 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-12 21:30 ` Cameron Schaus
2007-04-13 22:39 ` Jason Lunz [this message]
2007-04-13 22:46 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-13 22:54 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-13 23:32 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-13 23:40 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-13 23:01 ` Jason Lunz
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