From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de In-Reply-To: <20041215003707.GW16322@dualathlon.random> References: <41A08765.7030402@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> <1101045469.23692.16.camel@thomas> <1101120922.19380.17.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <41A2E98E.7090109@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> <1101205649.3888.6.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <41BF0F0D.4000408@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> <20041214173858.GJ16322@dualathlon.random> <1103067018.5420.37.camel@npiggin-nld.site> <20041214235549.GT16322@dualathlon.random> <1103069783.3406.97.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <20041215003707.GW16322@dualathlon.random> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 01:48:31 +0100 Message-Id: <1103071711.3406.106.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Nick Piggin , Martin =?iso-8859-2?Q?MOKREJ=A9?= , Andrew Morton , piggin@cyberone.com.au, chris@tebibyte.org, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, LKML , linux-mm@kvack.org, Rik van Riel List-ID: On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 01:37 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 01:16:23AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > It solves one of the problems, but your fix is really the only complete > > fix I have in hands since this thread(s) started. + my simple changes to > > the whom to kill selection :) > > That patch prevents the machine to trigger "early" "suprious" oom kills > (I had reports of suprious oom kills myself, oom killer triggered > despite lots of swapcache was freeable), so it cannot help when a true > oom happens like with your workload. In your workload the oom isn't > a suprious error. I know. In meantime I understood which patch solves which problem :) tglx -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org