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From: Christian Kujau <evil@g-house.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: oom with 2.6.11
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 03:00:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4238E4B0.40703@g-house.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050316175109.3c160d4d.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Some application went berzerk, used up all the swap and then oomed the box.
> 
> You could perhaps run `top -d1' then hit M so the output is sorted by
> bloatiness, then try to catch the culprit.

i've already done that. as OOM happens when i am not around, i did that
with "ps":

http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/12/88
http://nerdbynature.de/bits/sheep/2.6.11/oom/daily_stats-2.6.11-rc5-bk2.log.gz

> But it would be better to have some app which prints the N most
> memory-hungry processes every second and simply scrolls that up the screen. 
> I'm not aware of such a thing, but it could be cooked up via
> /proc/N/cmdline and /proc/N/statm.

i hope the link above does reveal this information.

i just wrote a bug report for the (debian), ppp package, but to know
*where* the memory goes to would really help, i think.

thank you,
Christian.
-- 
BOFH excuse #72:

Satan did it

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-17  2:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-08 15:21 oom with 2.6.11 Christian Kujau
2005-03-09 13:18 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-03-09 13:41   ` Mauricio Lin
2005-03-09 14:00     ` Christian Kujau
2005-03-10 15:12       ` Christian Kujau
2005-03-11  0:39         ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-11  1:14           ` Christian Kujau
2005-03-11  7:45             ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2005-03-11  9:01         ` Mauricio Lin
2005-03-11 15:09           ` Christian Kujau
2005-03-15  8:52             ` Mauricio Lin
2005-03-15 14:12               ` Christian Kujau
2005-03-20 14:35                 ` [SOLVED] " Christian Kujau
2005-03-11 10:59 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-03-11 15:10   ` Christian Kujau
2005-03-12 18:06     ` Christian Kujau
2005-03-17  1:27       ` Christian Kujau
2005-03-17  1:51         ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-17  2:00           ` Christian Kujau [this message]
2005-03-17 21:25         ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-03-18  1:59           ` Christian Kujau
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-09 13:22 OOM " Christian Kujau

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