Re: OOM in 2.6.19-rc*

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 04:40:17PM +0000, Christian Kujau wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> a few days ago I upgraded my desktop machine (x86_64) to ubuntu/edgy 
> thus completely changing the userland. Since I'm using kernel.org 
> kernels I upgraded to a current kernel as well (2.6.19-rc4-git from Nov 
> 4 and 2.6.19-rc4-mm2). Now, while working under X11, probably reading 
> email, all of a sudden the machine was not responsible any more and the 
> disk was spinning like wild. The desktop applet showed all swap being 
> used up then the display froze too and ~5 min later the machine came 
> back with the gnome-login screen: it had not rebooted but ran OOM and 
> several apps got killed.
>...

Can you test whether an older kernel (preferably the one that worked 
before) shows the same problem?

This way you might know whether it's a kernel problem or a distribution 
problem.

> Thanks for your thoughts,
> Christian.

cu
Adrian

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