On 2020/04/26 9:27, Andrew Morton wrote: > Well, what's really going on here? > > Is networking potentially consuming an unbounded amount of memory? If > so, then killing a process will just cause networking to consume more > memory then hit against the same thing. So presumably the answer is > "no, the watermarks are inappropriately set for this workload". Maybe somebody is abusing __GFP_MEMALLOC allocations. David, please include whole context (e.g. which function from which process) instead of only memory stat lines.