Excessive xfs_inode allocations trigger OOM killer

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Tue Sep 20 16:51:47 CDT 2016


Hi Florian,

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.



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