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From: cliff white <cliffw@osdl.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.10-ac12 + kernbench == oom-killer: (OSDL)
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:15:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050221091545.2b11cdfc@es175> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1108757251.17213.38.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:07:33 +0000
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Gwe, 2005-02-18 at 16:55, Cliff White wrote:
> > Okay, with just vm.overcommit=2, things are still bad:
> > http://khack.osdl.org/stp/300854/logs/TestRunFailed.console.log.txt
> > 
> > Suggestion for vm.overcommit_ratio ?
> > Or should i repeat with later -ac ?
> 
> Thats showing up problems in the core code still. The OOM in this case
> is because the kernel is deciding it is out of memory when it's merely
> constipated with dirty pages for disk write by the look of it.

Okay, same question - is there a tweak or a patch I can try here?
cliffw

> 
> Alan
> 


-- 
"Ive always gone through periods where I bolt upright at four in the morning; 
now at least theres a reason." -Michael Feldman

  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-21 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-08 22:57 2.6.10-ac12 + kernbench == oom-killer: (OSDL) cliff white
2005-02-09  1:36 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-02-18 16:55   ` Cliff White
2005-02-18 20:07     ` Alan Cox
2005-02-21 17:15       ` cliff white [this message]
2005-02-09 12:12 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-02-17 20:49   ` cliff white

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