linux-kernel - Re: OOM-Killer kills too much with 2.6.32.2

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:18:16 +0000
From:	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Roman Jarosz <kedgedev@...il.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	A Rojas <nqn1976list@...il.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	"A. Boulan" <arnaud.boulan@...ertysurf.fr>, michael@...nelt.co.at,
	jcnengel@...glemail.com, rientjes@...gle.com, earny@...4u.de,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>
Subject: Re: OOM-Killer kills too much with 2.6.32.2

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:03:06 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> Please consider to revert such commit at once. Lots people reported
> the same issue.
> I really hope to stop bug report storm.

Your CC did not reference the problem that you were discussing, nor that
it is even easier to trigger an OOM without the shrinker. Memory
exhaustion due to the excess usage of surfaces from userspace is not a new
issuer. So what is the problem you have encountered and how does running
the OOM killer earlier fix the issue of triggering the OOM killer?

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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