Re: OOM problems on 2.6.12-rc1 with many fsx tests

Andrew Morton
2005-03-23T22:50:25Z

Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> I run into OOM problem again on 2.6.12-rc1. I run some(20) fsx tests on
> 2.6.12-rc1 kernel(and 2.6.11-mm4) on ext3 filesystem, after about 10
> hours the system hit OOM, and OOM keep killing processes one by one.

I don't have a very good record reading these oom dumps lately, but this
one look really weird. Basically no mapped memory, tons of pagecache on
the LRU.

It would be interesting if you could run the same test on 2.6.11.