On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> wrote: > (Built this time and passed a basic sniff-test.) > > During allocator-intensive workloads, kswapd will be woken frequently > causing free memory to oscillate between the high and min watermark. > This is expected behaviour. Unfortunately, if the highest zone is > small, a problem occurs. > [...] I've been running these for a couple days with no problems, although I haven't been trying to reproduce the problem. (Well, no problems related to memory management.) I suspect that my pet unnecessary-OOM-kill bug is still around, but that's probably not related, especially since I can trigger it if I stick 8 GB of RAM in this laptop. Thanks, Andy -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href