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From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: Nico Schottelius <nico-linux-admin-ml@schottelius.org>
Cc: Ross Clarke <encrypted@geekz.za.net>,
	Linux-Admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Crazy load average & unkillable processes
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:33:25 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F4DCC65.2010106@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030828085549.GB264@schottelius.org>



Nico Schottelius wrote:

>Very interesting..
>with the test4 I experiene the same/similar problems on my laptop..
>all of sudden yesterday several programs died -> Out of Memory.
>I ran
>   Xfree
>   dhcpcd
>   opera 
>   several xterms (about 6)
>   qmail
>   named
>
>first opera was Out of Memory, then died the whole X system with all
>xterms and X beeing Out of Memory.
>
>MemTotal:       385600 kB
>
>which should be more than enough!
>

You might have a process with a memory leak. How much free memory do
you have before everything dies? How much swapping activity is going
on? What do /proc/meminfo and /proc/slabinfo say?



  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-28  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-27 22:41 Crazy load average & unkillable processes Ross Clarke
2003-08-28  8:55 ` Nico Schottelius
2003-08-28  9:33   ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2003-08-28 10:43     ` Bostjan Skufca (at) domenca.si
2003-08-29  9:01     ` Nico Schottelius
2003-08-29  9:53       ` Nico Schottelius
2003-08-29 11:17       ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-01 13:48       ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-15 23:32     ` Nico Schottelius
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-27 22:13 Brandon

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