Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 22:51:47 +0800
From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
        "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
        KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel falls apart under light memory pressure (i.e. linking
 vmlinux)
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> > I had 6GB swap available, so there shouldn't have
> > been any OOM.
> 
> Yes. It's strange but we have seen such case several times, AFAIR.

I noticed that the test script mounted a "ramfs" not "tmpfs", hence
the 1.4G pages won't be swapped?

Thanks,
Fengguang
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