Re: Crazy load average & unkillable processes

[Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>]

Looks like you still have quite a lot of free memory left, so its
not that. Maybe you have runaway processes? Look in top. Although
if its only happening with test4, I guess its probably kernel
related. Maybe ACPI? Maybe your video card driver? Try booting with
acpi=off. Post a dmesg too. Thanks.

Nico Schottelius wrote:

>I am attaching /proc/meminfo,slapinfo,uptime from now.
>The system is f*** slow..
>And I am currently just able to write this, moving windows
>in X is more than painful!
>
>Nico
>
>Nick Piggin [Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 07:33:25PM +1000]:
>
>>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?
>>
>>
>>
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