On 11/14/2011 05:02 PM, Jerome Glisse wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Thomas Hellstrom<thellstrom at vmware.com> > wrote: > >> On 11/11/2011 11:47 PM, j.glisse at gmail.com wrote: >> >>> So attached is updated serie of patch with fixes for swaping issue >>> that also impacted memory accounting. >>> >> Jerome, >> Out of interest, what was the swapping issue? >> >> /Thomas >> >> >> > The page list was NULL and some access ended up freaking the kernel > and oom kicked in for some reason i still don't understand. Bottom > line things were going south in a split second leaving me with no log > or access, i thought it was accounting not working as it was what i > tested at the time. I should have tested accouting without the > patchset > > Cheers, > Jerome >
Still, I think you have a point in the fact that *when* finally the OOM killer kicks in, it probably doesn't have a way to associate user-space created bos with processes and kill the right process. /Thomas
