Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:32:44 -0500
From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: OOM-killer too aggressive?
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: axboe@suse.de, largret@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 at 21:39:17 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 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.

        http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=113895864600001&r=1&w=2
        http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=113766047000002&r=1&w=2

-- 
Chuck
"Equations are the Devil's sentences."  --Stephen Colbert

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