Re: dbench on tmpfs OOM's

[Andrew Morton]

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 
> William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> >> MemTotal:     32107256 kB
> >> MemFree:      27564648 kB
> 
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 09:58:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I'd be suspecting that your node fallback is bust.
> > Suggest you add a call to show_free_areas() somewhere; consider
> > exposing the full per-zone status via /proc with a proper patch.
> 
> 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
mnm:/usr/src/25>