linux-kernel - Re: OOM-killer and strange RSS value in 3.9-rc7

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Message-ID: <0000013e6b2e06ab-a26ffcc5-a52d-4165-9be0-025ae813da00-000000@email.amazonses.com>
Date:	Fri, 3 May 2013 16:16:18 +0000
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
cc:	Han Pingtian <hanpt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, penberg@...nel.org,
	rientjes@...gle.com, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: OOM-killer and strange RSS value in 3.9-rc7

On Fri, 3 May 2013, Michal Hocko wrote:

> > Both should be fixed.
>
> Could you point to the specific commit(s), please?
>
> > Making requests for large amounts of memory from an allocator that is
> > supposed to hand out fraction of a page does not make sense.
>
> AFAIR there were lots of objects in size-512 as well.

Looks like I have confused two different issues here. Sorry.

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