Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756034Ab2KHOXo (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2012 09:23:44 -0500 Received: from fep11.mx.upcmail.net ([62.179.121.31]:33454 "EHLO fep11.mx.upcmail.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755982Ab2KHOXn (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2012 09:23:43 -0500 X-SourceIP: 178.83.228.246 X-Authenticated-Sender: odi.ch@hispeed.ch Message-ID: <509BC06A.8000401@odi.ch> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:23:38 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?T3J0d2luIEdsw7xjaw==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luming Yu CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [headache] 3.7.0-rc2 can't handle mutt (with 3.7G mail file) +FF (4 tabs) on a 4G memory+4 core system ? References: <509BA0F9.304@odi.ch> <509BB4FE.60903@odi.ch> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 671 Lines: 14 On 08.11.2012 15:14, Luming Yu wrote: >> hmm....make sens? maybe we can't use tmp-on-tmpfs feature in f18 > but why not having disk to backup tmpfs under memory pressure? It should. tmpfs should use all available RAM+swap. But then I guess you have no swap, and the kernel simply is desperately trying to find memory for a slab/slub or whatever. OOM killer can't help because the temp file uses the space, not a process. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/