Re: dbench on tmpfs OOM's

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Hi Andrew,

Andrew Morton wrote:
> William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>>I went through the nodes by hand. It's just a run of the mill
>>ZONE_NORMAL OOM coming out of the GFP_USER allocation. None of
>>the highmem zones were anywhere near ->pages_low.
>>
>>
>
> erk. Why is shmem using GFP_USER?
>
> mnm:/usr/src/25> grep page_address mm/shmem.c

For inode and page vector allocation.

Greetings
                        Christoph

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