Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 01:15:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 01:15:11 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:62434 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 01:15:06 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:15:01 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@zip.com.au, hugh@veritas.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: dbench on tmpfs OOM's Message-ID: <20020917051501.GM3530@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@zip.com.au, hugh@veritas.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20020917044317.GZ2179@holomorphy.com> <3D86B683.8101C1D1@digeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D86B683.8101C1D1@digeo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 772 Lines: 21 William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> MemTotal: 32107256 kB >> MemFree: 27564648 kB On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 09:58:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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. 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. Cheers, Bill - 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/