Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Apr 2018 12:13:26 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ring-buffer: Add set/clear_current_oom_origin() during allocations |
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On Wed, 4 Apr 2018 09:03:47 -0700 Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> wrote:
> > for the tests. Note, without this, I tried to allocate all memory > > (bisecting it with allocations that failed and allocations that > > succeeded), and couldn't trigger an OOM :-/ > > I guess you need to have something *else* other than the write to > buffer_size_kb doing the GFP_KERNEL allocations but unfortunately gets > OOM killed?
Yeah, for some reason, my test box seems to always have something doing that, because I trigger an OOM about 2 out of every 3 tries.
Here's the tasks that trigger it:
lvmetad, crond, systemd-journal, abrt-dump-journ, chronyd,
I guess my system is rather busy even when idle :-/
> > Also, I agree with the new patch and its nice idea to do that.
Thanks, want to give it a test too?
-- Steve
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