From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Andy Chittenden" <AChittenden@bluearc.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Out of Memory: Killed process 16498 (java).
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:56:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060119005600.4e465e9d.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <89E85E0168AD994693B574C80EDB9C2703555F85@uk-email.terastack.bluearc.com>
"Andy Chittenden" <AChittenden@bluearc.com> wrote:
>
> Why does running the following command cause processes to be killed:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/u/u1/andyc/tmpfile bs=1M count=8k
>
> And I noticed one of my windows disappeared. Further investigation
> showed that was my terminator window (java based app: see
> http://software.jessies.org/terminator/). I found this in my syslog:
>
> Jan 17 11:12:58 boco kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 16498 (java).
>
> My hardware: amd64 based machine (ASUS A8V Deluxe motherboard) with 4Gb
> of memory.
> My kernel: debian package linux-image-2.6.15-1-amd64-k8 package
> installed. IE its running 2.6.15 compiled for amd64.
>
> This is repeatable. The above dd command also causes the machine to
> become very unresponsive (eg windows don't focus).
What type of filesytem is being written to?
Has someone tuned /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, or something else under
/proc/sys/vm?
It'd be useful to see the dmesg output from that oom event.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-19 8:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-19 8:43 Out of Memory: Killed process 16498 (java) Andy Chittenden
2006-01-19 8:56 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-01-19 9:36 ` Con Kolivas
2006-01-19 20:54 ` Martin Bligh
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2006-01-19 9:40 Andy Chittenden
2006-01-19 9:41 ` Con Kolivas
[not found] <89E85E0168AD994693B574C80EDB9C2703555F8E@uk-email.terastack.bluearc.com>
2006-01-19 9:44 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-19 15:11 Andy Chittenden
2006-01-19 19:48 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-19 22:15 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-20 8:12 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-20 8:23 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-20 12:08 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-20 12:17 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-20 12:28 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-20 12:51 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-20 1:03 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-20 1:28 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-20 1:49 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-21 20:00 ` Dan Aloni
[not found] <89E85E0168AD994693B574C80EDB9C27035560E4@uk-email.terastack.bluearc.com>
2006-01-20 12:37 ` Larry Woodman
[not found] <89E85E0168AD994693B574C80EDB9C27035561DE@uk-email.terastack.bluearc.com>
2006-01-20 17:39 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-21 21:47 Andy Chittenden
2006-01-23 9:27 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-23 10:03 Andy Chittenden
2006-01-23 10:11 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-27 11:53 Andy Chittenden
2006-01-27 14:21 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-27 14:39 ` Anton Altaparmakov
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