From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
To: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Aaron Staley <aaron@picloud.com>,
containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Paul Menage <menage@google.com>, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Processes writing large files in memory-limited LXC container are killed by OOM
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 14:42:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130702124208.GF16815@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130701190222.GA10367@sergelap>
On Mon 01-07-13 14:02:22, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Johannes Weiner (hannes@cmpxchg.org):
[...]
> > OOM with too many dirty pages', included in 3.6+.
>
> Is anyone actively working on the long term solution?
Patches for memcg dirty pages accounted were posted quite some time ago.
I plan to look at the at some point but I am rather busy with other
stuff right now. That would be just a first step though. Then we need to
hook into dirty pages throttling and make it memcg aware which sounds
like a bigger challenge.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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2013-07-01 18:01 ` Serge Hallyn
2013-07-01 18:45 ` Johannes Weiner
2013-07-01 18:51 ` Aaron Staley
2013-07-01 19:02 ` Serge Hallyn
2013-07-02 12:42 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
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