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SubjectRe: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts
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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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