From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261696AbULBR2V (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:28:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261697AbULBR2U (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:28:20 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:29919 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261696AbULBR2S (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:28:18 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:27:44 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: tglx@linutronix.de Cc: andrea@suse.de, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom killer (Core) Message-Id: <20041202092744.0acb38b6.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1102007851.13353.159.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> References: <20041201104820.1.patchmail@tglx> <20041201211638.GB4530@dualathlon.random> <1101938767.13353.62.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <20041202033619.GA32635@dualathlon.random> <1101985759.13353.102.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <1101995280.13353.124.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <20041202164725.GB32635@dualathlon.random> <20041202085518.58e0e8eb.akpm@osdl.org> <1102007851.13353.159.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > Thomas, could you please put together a description of how to reproduce > > this behaviour? > > > > As I mentioned before. I'm using a PIII,500Mhz,128MB Machine. Kernel > compiled with PREEMPT=y. > I boot into runlevel 3 and start > # hackbench 40 > from the shell. > > Just adjust the number so hackbench eats up all the memory. How much swap space is online?