Hi. On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 06:38:50AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 07:32:24AM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 06:43:00PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 09:58:47PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > 3) e1000e may be bad, but vmxnet3 will make oom-killer an everyday > > > > reality. SR-IOV is a way to go. > > > > > > everyday? really? when did you last try this? > > > > Saw the problem with my own eyes yesterday. > > > > Relatively low amount of free RAM (like 64M out of 16G) and a oom killer > > stack trace containing tcp_sendmsg + some vmxnet3 NICs. > > > > Those RHEL kernels are outright broken then it comes to memory > > management. > > Well, this is a debian list...
So? The kernel is a kernel, even if it's a RedHat fork. Besides, I did not bring VMWare into this thread. In fact, VMWare has nothing to do with OPs problem. Reco
