From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263871AbTH1KIy (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:08:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262312AbTH1KHj (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:07:39 -0400 Received: from vlan303.core-sw2.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.45]:30628 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262489AbTH1Jde (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 05:33:34 -0400 Message-ID: <3F4DCC65.2010106@cyberone.com.au> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:33:25 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030714 Debian/1.4-2 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nico Schottelius CC: Ross Clarke , Linux-Admin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Crazy load average & unkillable processes References: <3F4D339A.8010907@geekz.za.net> <20030828085549.GB264@schottelius.org> In-Reply-To: <20030828085549.GB264@schottelius.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nico Schottelius wrote: >Very interesting.. >with the test4 I experiene the same/similar problems on my laptop.. >all of sudden yesterday several programs died -> Out of Memory. >I ran > Xfree > dhcpcd > opera > several xterms (about 6) > qmail > named > >first opera was Out of Memory, then died the whole X system with all >xterms and X beeing Out of Memory. > >MemTotal: 385600 kB > >which should be more than enough! > You might have a process with a memory leak. How much free memory do you have before everything dies? How much swapping activity is going on? What do /proc/meminfo and /proc/slabinfo say?