Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262051AbUKPRI6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:08:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262056AbUKPRI6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:08:58 -0500 Received: from hell.sks3.muni.cz ([147.251.210.30]:63369 "EHLO hell.sks3.muni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262051AbUKPRI4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:08:56 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:05:27 +0100 From: Lukas Hejtmanek To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Stefan Schmidt , Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures Message-ID: <20041116170527.GA3525@mail.muni.cz> References: <20041109223558.GR1309@mail.muni.cz> <20041109144607.2950a41a.akpm@osdl.org> <20041109224423.GC18366@mail.muni.cz> <20041109203348.GD8414@logos.cnet> <20041110212818.GC25410@mail.muni.cz> <20041110181148.GA12867@logos.cnet> <20041111214435.GB29112@mail.muni.cz> <4194A7F9.5080503@cyberone.com.au> <20041113144743.GL20754@zaphods.net> <20041116093311.GD11482@logos.cnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20041116093311.GD11482@logos.cnet> X-echelon: NSA, CIA, CI5, MI5, FBI, KGB, BIS, Plutonium, Bin Laden, bomb User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1033 Lines: 26 On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 07:33:11AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > I took the default from 2.6.10-rc1-bk19 with your patch and doubled it. No > > luck with the following values subsequently applied: > > #vm.min_free_kbytes=3831 > > #vm.min_free_kbytes=7662 > > #vm.min_free_kbytes=15324 > > #vm.min_free_kbytes=61296 > > vm.min_free_kbytes=65535 > > Did not help against the page allocation errors or boosting up the machines > > performance. > > Nick, such high reservations should have protected the system from OOM. > Definately. I suspect XFS is unable to handle OOM graciously, or some other > problem. It seems that both Stefan and me are using XFS. Does someone have this problems with another filesystem? Unfortunately I cannot change fs. Can you Stefen? -- Luk?? Hejtm?nek - 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/