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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OOM kills if swappiness set to 0, swap storms otherwise
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:09:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1143518989.11792.20.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060327195905.7f666cb5.akpm@osdl.org>

On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 19:59 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Much porkiness.
> 
> /proc/meminfo is very useful for obtaining a top-level view of where all
> the memory's gone to.  I'd tentatively say that your options are to put up
> with the swapping or find a new mail client.
> 

Thanks.  It seems the problem is Evo (or possibly firefox) has a slow
memory leak.  I overlooked the fact that Evo had been running for more
than a week.

I guess the only possible kernel issue is that Evo never gets
OOM-killed, always Firefox (or OpenOffice if it's running), although
it's the biggest hog.  I'll have to investigate more.

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-28  4:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-28  1:53 OOM kills if swappiness set to 0, swap storms otherwise Lee Revell
2006-03-28  3:59 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-28  4:09   ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-03-28  4:12   ` Parag Warudkar
2006-03-28  4:20     ` Lee Revell
2006-04-05 14:47   ` Charles Shannon Hendrix
2006-04-05 20:47     ` Bill Davidsen
2006-05-02  4:12       ` Charles Shannon Hendrix
2006-04-11  8:33     ` Linda Walsh
2006-05-02  4:21       ` Charles Shannon Hendrix
2006-05-02  5:04         ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-03-28 11:41 ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-06  1:13 Shantanu Goel

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