From: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
To: Anthony DiSante <theant@nodivisions.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: oom-killings, but I'm not out of memory!
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:44:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1119977073.1723.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42C179D5.3040603@nodivisions.com>
> I'm running a 2.6.11 kernel. I have 1 gig of RAM and 1 gig of swap. Lately
> when my RAM gets full, the oom-killer takes out either Mozilla or
> Thunderbird (my two biggest memory hogs), even though my swap space is only
> 20% full. I still have ~800 MB of free swap space, so shouldn't the kernel
> push Moz or T-bird into swap instead of oom-killing it? At their maximum
> memory-hogging capacity, neither Moz nor T-bird is ever using more than 200 MB.
>
> Jun 28 12:09:09 soma oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x80d2
> ...
> Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Free swap = 781012kB
> Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Total swap = 987988kB
> Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Out of Memory: Killed process 30787 (thunderbird-bin).
> Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Out of Memory: Killed process 18112 (thunderbird-bin).
> Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Out of Memory: Killed process 18116 (thunderbird-bin).
> Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Out of Memory: Killed process 18117 (thunderbird-bin).
> Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Out of Memory: Killed process 18119 (thunderbird-bin).
> Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Out of Memory: Killed process 8857 (thunderbird-bin).
>
You cut out the important part where it printed out memory usage
information at the time of the OOM, please post it
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-28 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-28 16:24 oom-killings, but I'm not out of memory! Anthony DiSante
2005-06-28 16:44 ` Alexander Nyberg [this message]
2005-06-28 16:52 ` Anthony DiSante
2005-06-29 12:57 ` Alexander Nyberg
2005-07-03 20:53 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-07-04 2:44 ` Roy Keene
2005-07-03 22:45 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-07-04 3:52 ` Roy Keene
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