Re: OOM-killer killed everything

[Borislav Petkov <petkov@uni-muenster.de>]

On Saturday 25 September 2004 14:57, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> >> Usually I only get "Kernel panic: Out of memory and no killable
> >> processes..." from local DoS testcases; I'd be surprised if anyone
> >> tripped over such cases by accident unless they're doing something
> >> particularly stressful (e.g. forking server with zillions of clients) or
> >> there's a
> >> particularly outrageously offensive memory leak.
>
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 03:54:59PM +0300, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> > The burning CD audio one is a known issue afaik, i've run into it before
> > too.
>
> That would be the particularly outrageously offensive memory leak, then.
>
>
> -- wli

Thanks to you all guys for the help, I've applied the 2 akpm mm3 patches for 
the 2.6.8.1.  I'll try to repeat the stress test and burn an audio cd at the 
same time but I think not freeing pages of unaligned audio frames while 
burning an audio cd was the reason for the memory leak.

Regards,
Boris.