Re: [headache] 3.7.0-rc2 can't handle mutt (with 3.7G mail file) +FF(4 tabs) on a 4G memory+4 core system ?

[Luming Yu]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Ortwin GlÃck <odi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08.11.2012 15:14, Luming Yu wrote:
>>>
>>> hmm....make sens? maybe we can't use tmp-on-tmpfs feature in f18
>>
>> but why not having disk to backup tmpfs under memory pressure?
>
>
> It should. tmpfs should use all available RAM+swap. But then I guess you
there is swap space available, but somehow it didn't help as the attached pic
shows in my latest testing with 3.7.0-rc4

> have no swap, and the kernel simply is desperately trying to find memory for
> a slab/slub or whatever. OOM killer can't help because the temp file uses
> the space, not a process.
>

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