Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fdtable: Avoid triggering OOMs from alloc_fdmem | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Date | Tue, 04 Feb 2014 14:48:30 -0800 |
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On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 10:57 -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> As I have heard it described one tcp connection per small requestion, > and someone goofed and started creating new connections when the server > was bogged down. But since all of the requests and replies were small I > don't expect even TCP would allocate more than a 4KiB page in that > worload.
Right, small writes uses regular skb (no page fragments).
> > I had oodles of 4KiB and 8KiB pages. What size of memory allocation did > you see failing?
We got some reports of order-3 allocations failing.
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