On Mon, 2 May 2011 at 22:19, Dave Chinner wrote: > Yes. Try 2 orders of magnitude as a start. i.e change it to 10000... I've run the -12 test with vfs_cache_pressure=200 and now the -13 test with vfs_cache_pressure=10000. The OOM killer still kicks in, but the machine seems to be more usable afterwards and does not get totally stuck: http://nerdbynature.de/bits/2.6.39-rc4/oom/ - messages-12.txt.gz & slabinfo-12.txt.bz2 * oom-debug.sh invoked oom-killer at 01:27:11 * sysrq-w works until 01:27:08, but got killed by oom - messages-13.txt.gz & slabinfo-13.txt.bz2 * find invoked oom-killer at 08:44:07 * sysrq-w works until 08:45:48 (listing jbd2/hda6-8), then my debug script got killed Thanks, Christian. -- BOFH excuse #224: Jan 9 16:41:27 huber su: 'su root' succeeded for .... on /dev/pts/1 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
