From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: John Sigler <linux.kernel@free.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Runaway process and oom-killer
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:08:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070613090837.GD7443@v2.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <466FAF99.3070708@free.fr>
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:49:29AM +0200, John Sigler wrote:
> Question 1: why isn't this output picked up by klogd and sent to the
> appropriate file (kern.log in my case)?
I guess not a question for lkml, most distros uses syslog-ng anyway.
> Question 2: how can I tell which process or kernel thread was hogging
> most of the RAM when the oom-killer kicked in?
Theoretically the one that was killed first but not for sure in
current mainline hence see below.
> Question 3: if myapp was hogging the RAM, then why did oom-killer snipe
> other processes (syslogd and boa) after it killed myapp?
Please try again after applying this monolith (proper submission was
on linux-mm but the monolith is easier to apply for tests like this):
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.6/2.6.22-rc4/oom-fixes-1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-13 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-13 8:49 Runaway process and oom-killer John Sigler
2007-06-13 9:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2007-06-13 9:20 ` John Sigler
2007-06-13 13:29 ` Helge Hafting
2007-06-13 15:10 ` Chris Friesen
2007-06-13 15:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-06-14 10:01 ` John Sigler
2007-06-14 9:43 ` John Sigler
2007-06-14 12:56 ` Helge Hafting
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