From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: cmm@us.ibm.com, andrea@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: OOM problems on 2.6.12-rc1 with many fsx tests
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:30:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25760000.1111620606@flay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050323232656.GA5704@pclin040.win.tue.nl>
>> Nothing beats poking around in a dead machine's guts with kgdb though.
>
> Everyone his taste.
>
> But I was surprised by
>
>> SwapTotal: 1052216 kB
>> SwapFree: 1045984 kB
>
> Strange that processes are killed while lots of swap is available.
I don't think we're that smart about it. If we're really low on mem, it
seems we invoke the OOM killer whether processes are causing the problem
or not.
OTOH, if we can't free the kernel mem, we don't have much choice, but
it's not really helping much ;-)
M.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-23 23:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-15 20:44 OOM problems with 2.6.11-rc4 Noah Meyerhans
2005-03-15 21:56 ` Sean
2005-03-15 22:12 ` Lee Revell
2005-03-15 23:46 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-18 16:12 ` Noah Meyerhans
2005-04-13 13:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-04-14 16:56 ` Noah Meyerhans
2005-03-16 0:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-03-16 11:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-03-16 12:04 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-16 12:15 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-16 18:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-03-16 22:21 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-23 19:53 ` OOM problems on 2.6.12-rc1 with many fsx tests Mingming Cao
2005-03-23 22:49 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-23 23:13 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-03-23 23:20 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-23 23:26 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-03-23 23:30 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2005-03-23 23:42 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-23 23:49 ` [Ext2-devel] " Badari Pulavarty
2005-03-24 1:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-03-24 2:00 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-25 21:56 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-25 22:11 ` [Ext2-devel] " Badari Pulavarty
2005-03-27 0:23 ` Mingming Cao
2005-03-27 19:22 ` Mingming Cao
2005-03-27 20:06 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-03-27 20:17 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-03-26 0:17 ` Dave Jones
2005-03-26 0:20 ` [Ext2-devel] " Badari Pulavarty
2005-04-04 1:35 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-04 16:50 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-04 20:04 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-04 20:24 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-04-04 20:33 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-05 17:04 ` [Ext2-devel] " Mingming Cao
2005-04-06 1:23 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-12 12:50 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-04-05 16:44 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-03-16 12:23 ` OOM problems with 2.6.11-rc4 Andrew Morton
2005-03-16 12:30 ` Andrew Morton
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