linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.20 OOM with 8Gb RAM

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Date:	Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:30:18 -0600
From:	Cameron Schaus <cam@...aus.ca>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.20 OOM with 8Gb RAM

Andrew Morton wrote:
> All of ZONE_NORMAL got used by ramdisk, and networking wants to
> allocate a page from ZONE_NORMAL.  An oom-killing is the correct
> response, although probably not effective.
>
> ramdisk is a nasty thing - cannot you use ramfs or tmpfs?
>   
Sure enough, changing the ramdisk to a tmpfs did the trick.  No more OOM 
(at least for now).

Thanks!
Cam


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