Re: kswapd0: excessive CPU usage

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Sun Nov 18 2012 - 14:07:51 EST


On 11/18/2012 08:00 PM, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> For some reason my machine went ouf of memory and OOM killed
> firefox and then even whole Xsession.
>
> Unsure whether it's related to those 2 patches - but I've never had
> such OOM failure before.

As I wrote, this would be me:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/15/150

There is no -next tree for Friday which would contain the set already.
So for now, it should be enough for you to apply:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/15/95

Or, alternatively, if you use a brand new systemd, it likes to fork bomb
using udev.

thanks,
--
js
suse labs
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