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Re: Excessive xfs_inode allocations trigger OOM killer

To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Excessive xfs_inode allocations trigger OOM killer
From: Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 23:54:43 +0200
Cc: xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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In-reply-to: <20160920215147.GA31614@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:51:47 -0700")
References: <87a8f2pd2d.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <20160920215147.GA31614@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* Christoph Hellwig:

> can you check if you have CONFIG_COMPACTION enabled in your kernel
> config?  There have been some regressions in the VM code lately that
> made me see similar OOM killer rampage runs, which went away after I
> followed some linux-mm advise to turn it on.

It's already turned on:

$ grep CONFIG_COMPACT /boot/config-4.7.1fw 
CONFIG_COMPACTION=y

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