Toward more predictable and reliable out-of-memory handling
Toward more predictable and reliable out-of-memory handling
Posted Aug 23, 2016 6:09 UTC (Tue) by mikachu (guest, #5333)Parent article: Toward more predictable and reliable out-of-memory handling
These patches were merged in 4.7 and the result is that the OOM killer is now invoked way too easily, when there's plenty of reclaimable memory still around. Hopefully it will be fixed in the stable series, otherwise in 4.8.
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1608.2/04321.html
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1608.2/04321.html