2.4.16 & OOM killer screw up

2.4.16 & OOM killer screw up

[Abraham vd Merwe]

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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).

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Regards
 Abraham

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Re: 2.4.16 & OOM killer screw up

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, 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).

Abraham, 

I'll take a look at this issue as soon as pre8 is released. 

Re: 2.4.16 & OOM killer screw up

[Andrea Arcangeli]

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