Re: 2.6.10-ac12 + kernbench == oom-killer: (OSDL)

[cliff white <cliffw@osdl.org>]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:07:33 +0000
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Gwe, 2005-02-18 at 16:55, Cliff White wrote:
> > Okay, with just vm.overcommit=2, things are still bad:
> > http://khack.osdl.org/stp/300854/logs/TestRunFailed.console.log.txt
> > 
> > Suggestion for vm.overcommit_ratio ?
> > Or should i repeat with later -ac ?
> 
> Thats showing up problems in the core code still. The OOM in this case
> is because the kernel is deciding it is out of memory when it's merely
> constipated with dirty pages for disk write by the look of it.

Okay, same question - is there a tweak or a patch I can try here?
cliffw

> 
> Alan
> 


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