From: James Washer <washer@trlp.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Question about OOM-Killer
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:21:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050718122101.751125ef.washer@trlp.com> (raw)
I'm chasing down a system problem where the DMA memory (x86-64, god knows why it is using DMA memory) drops below the minimum, and the OOM-Killer is fired off.
It just strikes me odd that the OOM-Killer would be called at all for DMA memory. What's the chance of regaining DMA memory by killing user land processes?
I'll admit, I know very little about linux VM, so perhaps I'm missing how oom killing can be helpful here.
- jim
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next reply other threads:[~2005-07-18 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-18 19:21 James Washer [this message]
2005-07-18 19:36 ` Question about OOM-Killer James Washer
2005-07-23 13:00 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-07-25 19:11 ` James Washer
2005-07-25 12:27 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-07-25 22:41 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-07-25 15:46 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-07-26 0:35 ` James Washer
2005-07-25 17:10 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-07-26 13:29 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-07-26 15:17 ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-26 16:34 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-07-26 16:34 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-07-26 13:53 ` Andi Kleen
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2023-05-31 8:42 Question about oom-killer Gou Hao
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