Re: [Bug #13665] commit 69c854817566 causes OOMs

Minchan Kim
2009-07-07T04:05:11Z

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 02:01:03 +0200 (CEST)
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:

> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> of recent regressions.
>
> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> from 2.6.30. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know
> (either way).
>

It should be listed.

I think it is caused by forking process bomb by msgctl11 on LTP.
We can refer old discussion(http://osdir.com/ml/linux-kernel/2009-07/msg00926.html)

I think this issue can be solved by
dynamic reclaim throttling patch which is making by Rik.

After he merges it, Let's test again.

>
> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13665
> Subject : commit 69c854817566 causes OOMs
> Submitter : David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> Date : 2009-06-27 08:12 (10 days old)
> First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=69c854817566db82c362797b4a6521d0b00fe1d8
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/27/28
> Handled-By : Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
> Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/32740/
>
>

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim