Re: OOM-killer too aggressive?

[Andi Kleen]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 10:21:52AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Chris Largret is getting repeated OOM kills because of DMA memory
> > exhaustion:
> > 
> > oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd1, order=3
> > 
> 
> This could be related to the known GFP_DMA oom on some x86_64 machines.

What known GFP_DMA oom? GFP_DMA allocation should work.

-Andi
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