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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: riel@conectiva.com.br
Subject: OOM: A Success Report
Date: 07 Jul 2001 18:00:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <994543220.1749.0.camel@phantasy> (raw)

i thought it would be nice to finally hear something good about the OOM
killer.

i am testing Evolution (Ximian's GNOME emailer/groupware app), and the
latest Evolution cvs-snapshot went crazy when trying to copy a mail
folder.  my load averaged spiked, swap filled, and then i ran out of
memory.

*poof*, Evolution was killed, and everything returned to normal.

kernel showed:
Out of Memory: Killed process 1296 (evolution-mail).
Out of Memory: Killed process 1296 (evolution-mail).
Out of Memory: Killed process 1296 (evolution-mail).
Out of Memory: Killed process 1302 (evolution-mail).
Out of Memory: Killed process 1303 (evolution-mail).
Out of Memory: Killed process 1306 (evolution-mail).
Out of Memory: Killed process 1307 (evolution-mail).

now, i dont know if the load average spiking was evolution's fault, or
not...but everything seemed to work. Good job.

-- 
Robert M. Love
rml at ufl.edu
rml at tech9.net


             reply	other threads:[~2001-07-07 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-07 22:00 Robert Love [this message]
2001-07-08  0:40 ` OOM: A Success Report José Luis Domingo López
2001-07-07 23:01   ` Robert Love
2001-07-08  1:20   ` Daniel Phillips

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