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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:51:47 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Excessive xfs_inode allocations trigger OOM killer
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To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Hi Florian,

can you check if you have CONFIG_COMPACTION enabled in your kernel
config?  There have been some regressions in the VM code lately that
made me see similar OOM killer rampage runs, which went away after I
followed some linux-mm advise to turn it on.

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