On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:08:40PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote: ... > >yes i do see that. > > > >Maybe less aggressive with M_NOWAIT but still kills processes. > > Are you compiling world with MALLOC_PRODUCTION? The latest version of
whatever the default is. But: > jemalloc uses significantly more memory when debugging options are > enabled. This first came up in a thread titled "10-CURRENT and swap > usage" back in June. > > Even at its most aggressive, M_WAITOK, contigmalloc() does not directly > kill processes. If process death coincides with the use of > contigmalloc(), then it is simply the result of earlier, successful > contigmalloc() calls, or for that matter any other physical memory > allocation calls, having depleted the pool of free pages to the point > that the page daemon runs and invokes vm_pageout_oom(). does it mean that those previous allocations relied on memory overbooking ? Is there a way to avoid that, then ? cheers luigi _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
