Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:39:31 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: OOM-killer too aggressive? |
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Chuck Ebbert wrote: > DMA free:44kB min:32kB low:40kB high:48kB active:0kB inactive:0kB > present:15728kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? yes
I think the big question is who used up all the DMA zone.. Surely not the floppy driver..
> So it will try to allocate half its first request if that fails, then > fall back to non-DMA memory as a last resort, but doesn't get a chance > because the OOM killer gets invoked. Maybe we need a new flag that says > "fail me immediately if no memory available"?
I think __GFP_NORETRY already does this.. There is also __GFP_NOWARN which suppresses the allocation failure warning, not sure if we want that or not..
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