Re: OOM: Better, but still there on 4.9

2016-12-16 Thread Michal Hocko
On Fri 16-12-16 17:47:25, Chris Mason wrote: > On 12/16/2016 05:14 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Fri 16-12-16 13:15:18, Chris Mason wrote: > > > On 12/16/2016 02:39 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: > > [...] > > > > I believe the right way to go around this is to pursue what I've started > > > > in [1]. I

Re: OOM: Better, but still there on 4.9

2016-12-16 Thread Chris Mason
On 12/16/2016 05:14 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: On Fri 16-12-16 13:15:18, Chris Mason wrote: On 12/16/2016 02:39 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] I believe the right way to go around this is to pursue what I've started in [1]. I will try to prepare something for testing today for you. Stay tuned. But

Re: OOM: Better, but still there on 4.9

2016-12-16 Thread Michal Hocko
On Fri 16-12-16 13:15:18, Chris Mason wrote: > On 12/16/2016 02:39 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > > I believe the right way to go around this is to pursue what I've started > > in [1]. I will try to prepare something for testing today for you. Stay > > tuned. But I would be really happy if somebod

Re: OOM: Better, but still there on 4.9

2016-12-16 Thread Chris Mason
On 12/16/2016 02:39 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: [CC linux-mm and btrfs guys] On Thu 15-12-16 23:57:04, Nils Holland wrote: [...] Of course, none of this are workloads that are new / special in any way - prior to 4.8, I never experienced any issues doing the exact same things. Dec 15 19:02:16 teela

Re: OOM: Better, but still there on 4.9

2016-12-16 Thread Chris Mason
On 12/16/2016 02:39 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: [CC linux-mm and btrfs guys] On Thu 15-12-16 23:57:04, Nils Holland wrote: [...] Of course, none of this are workloads that are new / special in any way - prior to 4.8, I never experienced any issues doing the exact same things. Dec 15 19:02:16 teela

Re: OOM: Better, but still there on 4.9

2016-12-15 Thread Michal Hocko
[CC linux-mm and btrfs guys] On Thu 15-12-16 23:57:04, Nils Holland wrote: [...] > Of course, none of this are workloads that are new / special in any > way - prior to 4.8, I never experienced any issues doing the exact > same things. > > Dec 15 19:02:16 teela kernel: kworker/u4:5 invoked oom-kil

OOM: Better, but still there on 4.9

2016-12-15 Thread Nils Holland
Hi folks, I've been reading quite a bit about OOM related issues in recent kernels, and as I've been experiencing some of these myself for quite a while, I thought I'd send in my report in case in the hope that it is useful. Of course, if there's ever anything to test, like some patches or somethi