Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932625AbVKBHdF (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2005 02:33:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932637AbVKBHdE (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2005 02:33:04 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:26056 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932626AbVKBHdD (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2005 02:33:03 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 02:32:51 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Rob Landley Cc: Robert Hancock , linux-kernel Subject: Re: echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness triggers OOM killer under 2.6.14. Message-ID: <20051102073251.GB23297@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Rob Landley , Robert Hancock , linux-kernel References: <53vpu-s9-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <4366E99D.7070606@shaw.ca> <200511010237.01737.rob@landley.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200511010237.01737.rob@landley.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 513 Lines: 20 On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:37:01AM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: > oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x400d2, order=0 something explicitly asked for a highmem page. > 0 pages of HIGHMEM You don't have any. Calling the oom-killer in this situation seems drastic though. Dave - 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/