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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Abraham vd Merwe <abraham@2d3d.co.za>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.16 & OOM killer screw up
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 01:02:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011211010223.Z4801@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011210101452.F1502@crystal.2d3d.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <20011210101452.F1502@crystal.2d3d.co.za>; from abraham@2d3d.co.za on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:14:52AM +0200

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:14:52AM +0200, Abraham vd Merwe wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> If I leave my machine on for a day or two without doing anything on it (e.g.
> my machine at work over a weekend) and I come back then 1) all my memory is
> used for buffers/caches and when I try running application, the OOM killer
> kicks in, tries to allocate swap space (which I don't have) and kills
> whatever I try start (that's with 300M+ memory in buffers/caches).

I'd try 2.4.17pre4aa1.

Andrea

      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-11  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-10  8:14 2.4.16 & OOM killer screw up Abraham vd Merwe
2001-12-10 18:46 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-12-11  0:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]

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