Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:29:03 +0100 |
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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
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