On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 06:43:00PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 09:58:47PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> 3) e1000e may be bad, but vmxnet3 will make oom-killer an everyday
> reality. SR-IOV is a way to go.
everyday? really? when did you last try this?
Saw the problem with my own eyes yesterday.
Relatively low amount of free RAM (like 64M out of 16G) and a oom killer
stack trace containing tcp_sendmsg + some vmxnet3 NICs.
Those RHEL kernels are outright broken then it comes to memory
management.