Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:03:48 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: OOM-killer too aggressive? |
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On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 02:30:02PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > Isnt this also a constrained allocation? We could expand the check to also > > > catch these types of restrictions and fail. > > > > No, it uses the full fallback zone list of the target node, not a custom > > one. Would be hard to detect without a flag.
Right but it specifies in its flags that not all system memory can satisfy this particular memory request. That fact may be detected by the out_of_memory() function. We could do something special there instead of OOMing.
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