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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:29:03 +0100 From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org> To: "ming lei" <tom.leiming@...il.com> Cc: "Josh Goldsmith" <joshin@...mail.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts Am Dienstag 27 November 2007 schrieb ming lei: > It seems oom happenes when VM(page frame reclaim) try to reclaim much > more memory by writing back dirty pages, but there is not enough ram > for usb disk related driver to finish the writeback operation. (usb > disk related driver: scsi_mod, usb mass storage, usbcore and uhci or > ehci ) As far as I can tell, the problem arises because usb-storage's kernel thread does not run with PF_MEMALLOC and cannot dip into the reserves. Regards Oliver - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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