From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@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: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:17:11 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F4F3637.9050604@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030829090129.GE690@schottelius.org>
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?
>>
>>
>>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-29 11:17 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
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 [this message]
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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