From: Alin Dobre <alin.dobre@elastichosts.com>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Unnecessary mass OOM kills on Linux 3.11 virtualization host
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:35:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52837216.1090100@elastichosts.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131113120948.GE2834@moon>
On 13/11/13 12:09, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:18:26AM +0000, Alin Dobre wrote:
>>
>> The above traces seem similar with the ones that were reported by
>> Dave couple of months ago in the LKML thread
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/7/27.
>>
>> Any further thoughts on why this happens?
>
> Dave's report has been addressed in commit 6dec97dc9, which is
> in 3.11, also you're to have CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY=y to trigger
> it in former case.
Thanks a lot, Cyrill. That's a really good piece of information, we must
have missed it although it was clearly there.
In the meantime, we will try to reproduce the problem and see if this
fix together with CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY=y works for our OOM kills also.
Cheers,
Alin.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20131024225718.GA4363@alpha.arachsys.com>
2013-10-24 22:43 ` Richard Davies
2013-10-25 10:39 ` Richard Davies
2013-10-28 8:28 ` Richard Davies
2013-10-28 18:13 ` Dave Hansen
2013-10-28 18:23 ` Richard Davies
2013-11-13 11:18 ` Alin Dobre
2013-11-13 12:09 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-11-13 12:35 ` Alin Dobre [this message]
2013-11-13 13:19 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-11-14 9:50 ` Alin Dobre
2013-11-14 10:12 ` David Rientjes
2013-11-14 10:14 ` Alin Dobre
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