From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-lf0-f70.google.com (mail-lf0-f70.google.com [209.85.215.70]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 497216B0005 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2016 02:16:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-lf0-f70.google.com with SMTP id e7so68705830lfe.0 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2016 23:16:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id rv14si29890331wjb.235.2016.07.31.23.16.28 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 31 Jul 2016 23:16:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 08:16:26 +0200 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: OOM killer changes Message-ID: <20160801061625.GA11623@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Ralf-Peter Rohbeck Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org [CC linux-mm] On Sun 31-07-16 21:29:02, Ralf-Peter Rohbeck wrote: > Hello, > > I just noted that 4.7rc7 killed processes for no good reason apparently, on > a system with plenty of memory free and plenty of swap space. Have you seen a similar with 4.6? Can you reproduce this behavior? > At the time I initialized some USB3 drives by overwriting them with zeroes > so IO was constantly busy (sync never finished.) Not sure if that was the > reason. Still looking. Could you share your OOM report please? -- 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