Re: OOM-killer and strange RSS value in 3.9-rc7

Han Pingtian
2013-05-03T03:03:57Z

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 03:10:15PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 2 May 2013, Han Pingtian wrote:
>
> > Looks like "ibmvscsi" + "slub" can trigger this problem.
>
> And the next merge of the slab-next tree will also cause SLAB to trigger
> this issue. I would like to have this fixes. The slab allocator purpose is
> to servr objects that are a fraction of a page and not objects that are
> larger than the maximum allowed sizes of the page allocator.

So the problem is in memory management code, not in ibmvscis? And looks
like there is a fix already?

Thanks.