[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] [base-files] dont change defaults for vm.min_free_kbytes on devices with <64mb RAM

Martin Tippmann mt at i3o.de
Fri Sep 16 06:50:22 PDT 2016


On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Felix Fietkau <nbd at nbd.name> wrote:
> On 2016-09-16 11:31, Bastian Bittorf wrote:
>> with 5c9cc7b7f8920944a413644e1c2ea23bfe655bcb we changed the default
>> value from ~650 to 4096 kilobyte on 32mb-RAM-devices. This makes them
>> hardly useable with a lot of oom-crashes. Fix that and keep the default.
>> For devices with more than 32mb we keep the behaviour and tweak the value.
> How about setting it to 1024 for 32M? That will give drivers a bit more
> room without affecting memory usage that much.

A quick test: opkg works (update, list, install) , luci works mostly
with 1024 (installing packages via luci fails sometimes due to oom,
but that also happens with the lower default value..., everything else
looks good)



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