Problem with OOM killer killing process even when there is plenty of RAM.

[Mulyadi Santosa]

Hi...

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 02:06, mindentropy <mindentropy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> mind to tell us, how do you allocate memory? kmalloc?
> Via kmalloc.

As Greg said, you probably better use vmalloc for such allocation.
Vmalloc can deal with non contigous physical pages...

>>
>> furthermore, could you kindly paste the content of /proc/meminfo right
>> before OOM kicks in?
> Its kind of tough to do it as it happens so fast. I will try to write a script
> which polls.

Alright, I just thought it will be better if we understand the overall
virtual memory situation better.


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