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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@phunq.net>
To: "Daniel Spång" <daniel.spang@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Out of memory management in embedded systems
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:59:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709281859.18275.phillips@phunq.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cfd9edbf0709280555n51afa8aft5040331ae9c227fd@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday 28 September 2007 05:55, Daniel Spång wrote:
> Applications with dynamic input and dynamic memory usage have some
> issues with the current overcommitting kernel. A high memory usage
> situation eventually results in that a process is killed by the OOM
> killer. This is especially evident in swapless embedded systems with
> limited memory and no swap available.

In order to earn the right to fix this problem by inventing new Linux, 
first you need to post a traceback and a cat of /proc/meminfo to prove 
the OOM is a true one, as opposed to a second order effect of a 
writeout lockup.

Regards,

Daniel

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-29  1:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-28 12:55 Out of memory management in embedded systems Daniel Spång
2007-09-28 13:09 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-09-28 13:30   ` Daniel Spång
2007-09-28 14:04     ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-09-28 14:14       ` Daniel Spång
2007-09-28 15:16         ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-09-28 20:58           ` Daniel Spång
2007-09-29 19:48             ` Abhishek Sagar
2007-09-28 14:17       ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-28 14:36         ` Eric Dumazet
2007-09-28 15:15           ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-28 23:00             ` Nicholas Miell
2007-09-29  1:59 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
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2007-09-29  9:15           ` Bodo Eggert
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2007-10-01  7:58               ` Markku Savela
2007-10-01  8:13                 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-10-01 16:27                   ` david
2007-10-01 20:25                     ` Robin Getz

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