From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx192.postini.com [74.125.245.192]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A0C46B0032 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 08:42:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 14:42:08 +0200 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Processes writing large files in memory-limited LXC container are killed by OOM Message-ID: <20130702124208.GF16815@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20130701180101.GA5460@ac100> <20130701184503.GG17812@cmpxchg.org> <20130701190222.GA10367@sergelap> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130701190222.GA10367@sergelap> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Serge Hallyn Cc: Johannes Weiner , Aaron Staley , containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, Paul Menage , Li Zefan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org 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 -- 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: email@kvack.org