From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751932AbcK2QIC (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Nov 2016 11:08:02 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f68.google.com ([74.125.82.68]:33429 "EHLO mail-wm0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750922AbcK2QHx (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Nov 2016 11:07:53 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:07:51 +0100 From: Michal Hocko To: Marc MERLIN Cc: Vlastimil Babka , Linus Torvalds , linux-mm , LKML , Joonsoo Kim , Tejun Heo , Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: 4.8.8 kernel trigger OOM killer repeatedly when I have lots of RAM that should be free Message-ID: <20161129160751.GC9796@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20161121154336.GD19750@merlins.org> <0d4939f3-869d-6fb8-0914-5f74172f8519@suse.cz> <20161121215639.GF13371@merlins.org> <20161122160629.uzt2u6m75ash4ved@merlins.org> <48061a22-0203-de54-5a44-89773bff1e63@suse.cz> <20161123063410.GB2864@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20161128072315.GC14788@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20161129155537.f6qgnfmnoljwnx6j@merlins.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161129155537.f6qgnfmnoljwnx6j@merlins.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue 29-11-16 07:55:37, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 08:23:15AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > > Marc, could you try this patch please? I think it should be pretty clear > > it should help you but running it through your use case would be more > > than welcome before I ask Greg to take this to the 4.8 stable tree. > > I ran it overnight and copied 1.4TB with it before it failed because > there wasn't enough disk space on the other side, so I think it fixes > the problem too. Can I add your Tested-by? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f71.google.com (mail-wm0-f71.google.com [74.125.82.71]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF56C6B0038 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2016 11:07:53 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-wm0-f71.google.com with SMTP id y16so45251532wmd.6 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2016 08:07:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-wm0-f67.google.com (mail-wm0-f67.google.com. [74.125.82.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bf6si60075849wjb.201.2016.11.29.08.07.52 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 29 Nov 2016 08:07:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-wm0-f67.google.com with SMTP id g23so25171961wme.1 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2016 08:07:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:07:51 +0100 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: 4.8.8 kernel trigger OOM killer repeatedly when I have lots of RAM that should be free Message-ID: <20161129160751.GC9796@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20161121154336.GD19750@merlins.org> <0d4939f3-869d-6fb8-0914-5f74172f8519@suse.cz> <20161121215639.GF13371@merlins.org> <20161122160629.uzt2u6m75ash4ved@merlins.org> <48061a22-0203-de54-5a44-89773bff1e63@suse.cz> <20161123063410.GB2864@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20161128072315.GC14788@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20161129155537.f6qgnfmnoljwnx6j@merlins.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161129155537.f6qgnfmnoljwnx6j@merlins.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Marc MERLIN Cc: Vlastimil Babka , Linus Torvalds , linux-mm , LKML , Joonsoo Kim , Tejun Heo , Greg Kroah-Hartman On Tue 29-11-16 07:55:37, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 08:23:15AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > > Marc, could you try this patch please? I think it should be pretty clear > > it should help you but running it through your use case would be more > > than welcome before I ask Greg to take this to the 4.8 stable tree. > > I ran it overnight and copied 1.4TB with it before it failed because > there wasn't enough disk space on the other side, so I think it fixes > the problem too. Can I add your Tested-by? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org