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SubjectRe: oom-killer 2.6.8.1
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 02:55:42PM +0200, Anders Saaby wrote:
> This is a high-volume NFS server running almost no user-space
> applications. It serves a handfull of web server NFS clients from a
> ~700G XFS filesystem. The machine has about 2.5 GB of RAM and 4G of
> swap (which is almost not in use - i may use 5-10 MB total tops).
> CONFIG_HIGHMEM and CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G enabled, SMP enabled, preempt disabled.
> Today the OOM killer kicked in - it seemed that swap was almost unused at the
> time (which is strange, as that should prevent the OOM killer from kicking
> in).
> Relevant part of the syslog follows (syslogd was killed too eventually):

This seems to have been meant to resolve laptop_mode issues, but looks
like it didn't get applied. I'm not convinced it will help given that
you appear to have a vanilla ZONE_NORMAL slab OOM (858MB slab), but you
never know. Capturing /proc/slabinfo data may be more helpful.


Index: oom-2.6.8-rc1/mm/vmscan.c
===================================================================
--- oom-2.6.8-rc1.orig/mm/vmscan.c 2004-07-14 06:17:13.876343912 -0700
+++ oom-2.6.8-rc1/mm/vmscan.c 2004-07-14 06:22:15.986416200 -0700
@@ -417,7 +417,8 @@
goto keep_locked;
if (!may_enter_fs)
goto keep_locked;
- if (laptop_mode && !sc->may_writepage)
+ if (laptop_mode && !sc->may_writepage &&
+ !PageSwapCache(page))
goto keep_locked;

/* Page is dirty, try to write it out here */
-
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