From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: "Phil Oester" <kernel@theoesters.com>
Cc: nknight@pocketinet.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 1gb RAM + 1gb SWAP + make -j bzImage = OOM
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:24:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020107152422.42cfb554.skraw@ithnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000101c19743$a6dc4120$6400a8c0@philxp>
In-Reply-To: <20020105161727.18f04fc3.skraw@ithnet.com> <000101c19743$a6dc4120$6400a8c0@philxp>
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 22:22:16 -0800
"Phil Oester" <kernel@theoesters.com> wrote:
> I've rerun this test a number of times, and cannot reliably reproduce
> the OOM - though it still does OOM occasionally. It never OOM's right
> after a bootup - usually the greatest chance of OOM is after 2 or 3
> consecutive runs without a reboot. Once it even froze the box and
> required a powercycle.
>
> I'm surprised you cannot OOM with 1gb RAM/256MB swap, as sometimes I'm
> over 900MB in swap - did you try consecutive runs, or just once and then
> reboot between each run?
I tried just about everything I could think of and it never went in OOM. Even
the first test I did were with several days uptime - meaning far away from
"cleaning" reboot. I hate reboot :-)
> [...]
> Haven't yet tried Martin's patch - though since I can't reliably produce
> the OOM, testing it wouldn't help much.
Well, take the other side: if you do not manage to OOM afterwards, even at the
tenth consecutive try, there is probably something about the patch ...
Regards,
Stephan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-07 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-04 20:32 1gb RAM + 1gb SWAP + make -j bzImage = OOM Phil Oester
2002-01-04 21:02 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-05 0:42 ` Nicholas Knight
2002-01-05 1:24 ` Phil Oester
2002-01-05 15:17 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-07 6:22 ` Phil Oester
2002-01-07 14:24 ` Stephan von Krawczynski [this message]
2002-01-08 5:11 ` Phil Oester
2002-01-05 21:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-01-05 12:30 ` Luigi Genoni
2002-01-05 15:19 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-05 17:57 ` Nicholas Knight
2002-01-06 14:40 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
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