linux-kernel - Re: [Bug #13665] commit 69c854817566 causes OOMs

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Date:	Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:25:50 -0400
From:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...izon.net>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David Howells" <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	"Wu Fengguang" <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [Bug #13665] commit 69c854817566 causes OOMs

On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Minchan Kim wrote:
>On Tue,  7 Jul 2009 02:01:03 +0200 (CEST)
>
>"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
>> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
>> of recent regressions.
>>
>> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
>> from 2.6.30.  Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know
>> (either way).
>
>It should be listed.
>
>I think it is caused by forking process bomb by msgctl11 on LTP.
>We can refer old
> discussion(http://osdir.com/ml/linux-kernel/2009-07/msg00926.html)
>
>I think this issue can be solved by
>dynamic reclaim throttling patch which is making by Rik.
>
>After he merges it, Let's test again.
>
>> Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13665
>> Subject		: commit 69c854817566 causes OOMs
>> Submitter	: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
>> Date		: 2009-06-27 08:12 (10 days old)
>> First-Bad-Commit:
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;
>>h=69c854817566db82c362797b4a6521d0b00fe1d8 References	:
>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/27/28
>> Handled-By	: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
>> Patch		: http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/32740/

If I can chime in here, I just had to reboot from 2.6.31-rc2 for the 2nd time 
in about 24 hours cuz the oom killer killed it.  Back on 2.6.30.1 ATM for 
effects.

I have a previous post with traces etc.

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