From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3D86CF0E.3090003@sap.com> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 08:43:26 +0200 From: Christoph Rohland MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: dbench on tmpfs OOM's References: <20020917044317.GZ2179@holomorphy.com> <3D86B683.8101C1D1@digeo.com> <20020917051501.GM3530@holomorphy.com> <3D86BE4F.75C9B6CC@digeo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: William Lee Irwin III , linux-mm@kvack.org, hugh@veritas.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Andrew, Andrew Morton wrote: > William Lee Irwin III wrote: >>I went through the nodes by hand. It's just a run of the mill >>ZONE_NORMAL OOM coming out of the GFP_USER allocation. None of >>the highmem zones were anywhere near ->pages_low. >> >> > > erk. Why is shmem using GFP_USER? > > mnm:/usr/src/25> grep page_address mm/shmem.c For inode and page vector allocation. Greetings Christoph -- 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/