Date: 26 Feb 2006 21:39:17 +0100
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:39:17 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       largret@gmail.com, axboe@suse.de
Subject: Re: OOM-killer too aggressive?
Message-ID: <20060226203917.GA76858@muc.de>
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 10:21:52AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> wrote:
> >
> > Chris Largret is getting repeated OOM kills because of DMA memory
> > exhaustion:
> > 
> > oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd1, order=3
> > 
> 
> This could be related to the known GFP_DMA oom on some x86_64 machines.

What known GFP_DMA oom? GFP_DMA allocation should work.

-Andi
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