From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from digeo-nav01.digeo.com (digeo-nav01.digeo.com [192.168.1.233]) by packet.digeo.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA07800 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:14:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D86BA1B.84873680@digeo.com> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:14:03 -0700 From: Andrew Morton MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: dbench on tmpfs OOM's References: <3D86B683.8101C1D1@digeo.com> <210772234.1032213704@[10.10.2.3]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: William Lee Irwin III , linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@zip.com.au, hugh@veritas.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: "Martin J. Bligh" wrote: > > >> ... > >> MemTotal: 32107256 kB > >> MemFree: 27564648 kB > > > > I'd be suspecting that your node fallback is bust. > > > > Suggest you add a call to show_free_areas() somewhere; consider > > exposing the full per-zone status via /proc with a proper patch. > > Won't /proc/meminfo.numa show that? Or do you mean something > else by "full per-zone status"? meminfo.what? Remember when I suggested that you put a testing mode into the numa code so that mortals could run numa builds on non-numa boxes? > Looks to me like it's just out of low memory: > > > LowFree: 1424 kB > > There is no low memory on anything but node 0 ... > It was a GFP_HIGH allocation - just pagecache. -- 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/