Re: 2.6.20 OOM with 8Gb RAM

Andrew Morton wrote:

All of ZONE_NORMAL got used by ramdisk, and networking wants to
allocate a page from ZONE_NORMAL.  An oom-killing is the correct
response, although probably not effective.

ramdisk is a nasty thing - cannot you use ramfs or tmpfs?

Sure enough, changing the ramdisk to a tmpfs did the trick. No more OOM (at least for now).

Thanks!
Cam


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