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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:07:19 +0100
From: Michael Reinelt <michael@reinelt.co.at>
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To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
       Roman Jarosz <kedgedev@gmail.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       A Rojas <nqn1976list@gmail.com>,
       Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
       "A. Boulan" <arnaud.boulan@libertysurf.fr>, jcnengel@googlemail.com,
       rientjes@google.com, earny@net4u.de,
       Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>, Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Subject: Re: OOM-Killer kills too much with 2.6.32.2
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Michael Reinelt schrieb:
> 
> Chris Wilson schrieb:
>> On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:03:06 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>>> Please consider to revert such commit at once. Lots people reported
>>> the same issue.
>>> I really hope to stop bug report storm.
>> Your CC did not reference the problem that you were discussing, nor that
>> it is even easier to trigger an OOM without the shrinker. Memory
>> exhaustion due to the excess usage of surfaces from userspace is not a new
>> issuer. So what is the problem you have encountered and how does running
>> the OOM killer earlier fix the issue of triggering the OOM killer?
>>
> 
> To end this discussion: I just had a OOM with the GEM / shmem partial revert patch from Motohiro :-(
> 
> Unfortunately without Motohiro's oom-debug patch applied :-(
> 
> as a non-git-user I have to manually patch memory.c, but I hope I can get things right. I will provide results ASAP.

Sorry sorry sorry... false alarm. One should also *install* a new kernel after compiling...

I'll give it another try, this time with OOM debugging applied.


sorry for the noise...

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