From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267302AbUGNCk2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:40:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267304AbUGNCk2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:40:28 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:46745 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267302AbUGNCkZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:40:25 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 19:40:20 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Peter Zaitsev Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VM Problems in 2.6.7 (Too active OOM Killer) Message-ID: <20040714024020.GS21066@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Peter Zaitsev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1089771823.15336.2461.camel@abyss.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1089771823.15336.2461.camel@abyss.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 07:23:44PM -0700, Peter Zaitsev wrote: > To be honest I was truly surprised seeing OOM killer killing MySQL > without any good reason during highly IO intensive test: > Out of Memory: Killed process 19301 (mysqld). > Out of Memory: Killed process 19302 (mysqld). > Out of Memory: Killed process 19303 (mysqld). > Out of Memory: Killed process 19304 (mysqld). > Out of Memory: Killed process 19305 (mysqld). > Out of Memory: Killed process 19306 (mysqld). > Out of Memory: Killed process 19309 (mysqld). > Out of Memory: Killed process 19310 (mysqld). > Out of Memory: Killed process 19311 (mysqld). > Out of Memory: Killed process 19312 (mysqld). > Out of Memory: Killed process 19737 (mysqld). > Out of Memory: Killed process 19739 (mysqld). > Out of Memory: Killed process 19821 (mysqld). > This box has 4G memory and running without swap (what I would need it > for If I can only use up to 3GB address space in the application anyway) Is this a regression from earlier 2.6 versions? Do you have an isolated testcase (obviously I should be able to install mysql easily) I can use to trigger this? -- wli