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

[Pritam Bankar]

Hi,
use of
get_zeroed_page(unsigned int flags);  or
get_free_page(unsigned int flags);
might help you.


Thanks,
Pritam

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Mulyadi Santosa
<mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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>
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