Re: VM Problems in 2.6.7 (Too active OOM Killer)

From: Andrea Arcangeli
Date: Wed Jul 14 2004 - 19:08:31 EST


On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 03:44:27PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> If you end up pinning all of your ZONE_NORMAL pages with anonymous memory,
> further GFP_KERNEL allocation attempts will go oom.

exactly. Same problem happens with mlock on top of pagecache. (i.e. the
old 2.4 google bug)
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