Re: [PATCH] fdtable: Avoid triggering OOMs from alloc_fdmem

On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 10:57 -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

As I have heard it described one tcp connection per small requestion,
and someone goofed and started creating new connections when the server
was bogged down.  But since all of the requests and replies were small I
don't expect even TCP would allocate more than a 4KiB page in that
worload.

Right, small writes uses regular skb (no page fragments).

I had oodles of 4KiB and 8KiB pages.  What size of memory allocation did
you see failing?  

We got some reports of order-3 allocations failing.


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