From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay3.corp.sgi.com [198.149.34.15]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C859F7CC5 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 16:54:48 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by relay3.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C1E1AC005 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:54:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from albireo.enyo.de (albireo.enyo.de [5.158.152.32]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id x7TVVTIZmCmT2aRc (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:54:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Florian Weimer Subject: Re: Excessive xfs_inode allocations trigger OOM killer References: <87a8f2pd2d.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <20160920215147.GA31614@infradead.org> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 23:54:43 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20160920215147.GA31614@infradead.org> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:51:47 -0700") Message-ID: <878tumme3g.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com * Christoph Hellwig: > 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. It's already turned on: $ grep CONFIG_COMPACT /boot/config-4.7.1fw CONFIG_COMPACTION=y _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs