From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Can't make use of swap memory in 2.6.7-bk19
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 18:43:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040708014311.GM21066@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2brir9t6d.fsf@telia.com>
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 03:36:10AM +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> I created a test program that allocates a 300MB buffer and writes to
> all bytes sequentially. On my computer, which has 256MB RAM and 512MB
> swap, the program gets OOM killed after dirtying about 140-180MB, and
> the kernel reports:
> Out of Memory: Killed process 3421 (memalloc2).
> I ran "vmstat 1" during the test:
akpm, shall I revisit GFP_WIRED?
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-08 1:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-08 1:36 Can't make use of swap memory in 2.6.7-bk19 Peter Osterlund
2004-07-08 1:43 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-07-08 2:14 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-08 2:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-08 12:59 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-07-08 19:39 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-09 0:57 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-09 1:53 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-09 2:06 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-09 2:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-09 2:12 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-09 2:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-09 4:51 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-09 2:14 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-08 8:12 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-07-08 8:20 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-08 8:23 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-08 9:30 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-07-14 5:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-14 10:39 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-07-14 10:57 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-14 12:55 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-07-14 13:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-14 20:00 ` Peter Osterlund
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