Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262048AbUKPQd2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:33:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262036AbUKPQcD (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:32:03 -0500 Received: from host-3.tebibyte16-2.demon.nl ([82.161.9.107]:57110 "EHLO doc.tebibyte.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262032AbUKPQbB (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:31:01 -0500 Message-ID: <419A2B3A.80702@tebibyte.org> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:30:50 +0100 From: Chris Ross Organization: At home (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041103) X-Accept-Language: pt-br, pt MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Nick Piggin , Rik van Riel , Martin MOKREJ? , tglx@linutronix.de, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills References: <20041111112922.GA15948@logos.cnet> <4193E056.6070100@tebibyte.org> <4194EA45.90800@tebibyte.org> <20041113233740.GA4121@x30.random> <20041114094417.GC29267@logos.cnet> <20041114170339.GB13733@dualathlon.random> <20041114202155.GB2764@logos.cnet> In-Reply-To: <20041114202155.GB2764@logos.cnet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 984 Lines: 24 Marcelo Tosatti escreveu: > If its not the case, increasing the all_unreclaimable "timer" to a higher value > than 5 seconds will certainly delay the OOM killer such to a point where > its not triggered until the VM reclaiming efforts make progress. [...] > > Chris, can you change the "500*HZ" in mm/vmscan.c balance_pgdat() function > to "1000*HZ" and see what you get, please? Changed. FWIW it's been running happily for hours without a single oom, including the normally guaranteed build UML test. I'll leave it running and see how it goes. The daily cron run is a usually a popular time for killing off a few essential daemons (ntpd, sshd &c), in fact I think the OOM Killer actually looks forward to it :) Regards, Chris R. - 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/