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?
next prev parent 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
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2003-08-27 22:13 Brandon
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