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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Marco Nietz <m.nietz-mm@iplabs.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: oom-killer why ?
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:55:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B30031.201@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48B2EB37.2000200@iplabs.de>

Marco Nietz wrote:
> It's should be possible to reproduce the oom, but it's a Production Server.
> 
> The oom happens after if've increased the Maximum Connections and
> Shared-Buffers for the Postgres Database Server on that Machine.
> 
> It's kernel: 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem a Debian Etch Server.

Hmmm... That should be fairly stable. I wonder how prostgres handles the
buffers? If the pages are mlocked and are required to be in lowmem then what
you saw could be related to the postgres configuration.

> And here is the Complete dmesg:


The problem is that the boot messages are cut off we cannot see the basic
operating system configuration and the hardware that was detected.


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-25 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-25 11:25 oom-killer why ? Marco Nietz
2008-08-25 15:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-08-25 16:18   ` Marco Nietz
2008-08-25 16:29     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-08-25 17:26       ` Marco Nietz
2008-08-25 18:55         ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2008-08-26  6:44           ` Marco Nietz
2008-08-26 13:23             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-08-26 10:45         ` Larry Woodman
2008-08-25 17:36   ` Larry Woodman
2008-08-26 11:11 ` Balbir Singh
2008-08-26 12:00   ` Marco Nietz
2008-08-26 13:15     ` Balbir Singh
2008-08-26 13:18       ` Balbir Singh
2008-08-26 19:09         ` Larry Woodman
2008-08-27  2:32           ` Balbir Singh
2008-08-27  6:21             ` Marco Nietz
2008-08-30 18:19               ` Rik van Riel

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