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From: Cameron Schaus <cam@schaus.ca>
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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?
>   
Sure enough, changing the ramdisk to a tmpfs did the trick.  No more OOM 
(at least for now).

Thanks!
Cam