Description of problem: Light swapping load (less than 20%) can result in oom-kills. This is very noticable after upgrading the kernel from 4.5 to 4.6 thru 4.8. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.6, 4.7, 4.8 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1.allocate big mem allocs in 32bit 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: Premature oom-kills when 32bit servers with limited highmem are upgraded beyond RHEL/OEL 4.5, to like, 4.7 or 4.8. These servers usually have 6GB and a large portion (2GB) is allocated to hugepages for a database SGA. The higemem zone order checks added by patch #2042 induce early oom-kills. Related bugzilla 234572 which is not open to public. hence filing this bug. Reverting the patch # 2042 (linux-2.6.9-vm-excessive-swapout.patch), solves the oom-kills.
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