Out of Memory: Killed process pine, find, kza ...

Out of Memory: Killed process pine, find, kza ...

[Michael De Nil]

Heyz

I have a strange problem with kernel 2.4.14 & 2.4.17 (the two I tried on)
When I run a simple command like 'find /var -name sendmail* -print' (this
one) or when running pine, kza, etc. Iget the error: 'Out of Memory:
Killed process 2032 (find)'
I did a vmstat 2 while running 'find /var -name sendmail* -print'
Here is what I recieved after a while:


cs                      memory    swap          io     system         cpu
r  b  w   swpd   free   buff  cache  si  so    bi    bo   in    cs  us  sy  id
6  0  2 205720   1408   1220   5176   0 1664    12  1682  332    67   6  93   1
1  0  0 210200   2148   1244   5172   0 1664    24  1664  336    60   4  95   0
1  0  0 214672   1508   1224   5176  32 1950    42  1980  359    90  11  87   2
1  0  0 218768   2568   1236   5176   0 1958    22  1960  416    60   4  96   0
5  1  4 221840   1284   1240   5172   0 2138     4  2144  503    52   5  95   0
1  0  1 226960   2820   1316   5172   0 2530    34  2576  510   108   8  91   2
1  0  1 231696   2692   1228   5172   0 2176    18  2176  431    86   7  92   1
1  0  0 234768   2600   1220   5172   0 1536    14  1554  309    69  11  87   2
1  0  0 238352   2096   1228   5176   0 1770    12  1770  425    43   9  91   0
1  0  0 240964   1396   1272   5160   0 1110    10  1150  328    76   7  93   0
1  0  0 240964   1328   1224   5000   0 924    10   924  231    71   8  92   0
Out of Memory: Killed process 2032 (find).


I have a P3 - 733 Mhz with 128 meg ram & 256 meg swap
I am running debian - woody


Michael

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                Michael De Nil -- michael@aerythmic.be
      Linux LiSa 2.4.14 #6 SMP Sun Nov 25 16:59:04 CET 2001 i686
      15:56:01 up  2:41,  4 users,  load average: 0.04, 0.29, 0.54
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Re: Out of Memory: Killed process pine, find, kza ...

[José Luis Domingo López]

On Sunday, 30 December 2001, at 15:57:38 +0100,
Michael De Nil wrote:

> I have a strange problem with kernel 2.4.14 & 2.4.17 (the two I tried on)
> When I run a simple command like 'find /var -name sendmail* -print' (this
> one) or when running pine, kza, etc. Iget the error: 'Out of Memory:
> Killed process 2032 (find)'
> I did a vmstat 2 while running 'find /var -name sendmail* -print'
> Here is what I recieved after a while:
> 
> cs                      memory    swap          io     system         cpu
> r  b  w   swpd   free   buff  cache  si  so    bi    bo   in    cs  us  sy  id
> 6  0  2 205720   1408   1220   5176   0 1664    12  1682  332    67   6  93   1
> [...]
> 1  0  0 240964   1328   1224   5000   0 924    10   924  231    71   8  92   0
> Out of Memory: Killed process 2032 (find).
> 
> 
It doesn't seem to be the problem some people is complaining about
lately. These people get OOM but their systems still have tons of
"available" memory in buffers and/or caches. This is not your case, and
it seems OOM kills a process just in time to avoid having no memory
available for the system to continue working.

I would run "top" and see what processes are eating up your memory,
because 128 MB RAM + 256 MB swap is more than enough for a "normal"
system. Maybe is a program that went crazy, and keeps on allocating all
your memory, leaving nothing for the rest. I have seen both X and
netscape processes behaving this way.

-- 
José Luis Domingo López
Linux Registered User #189436     Debian Linux Woody (P166 64 MB RAM)
 
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