From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262148AbVF1Q1V (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:27:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262142AbVF1Q1U (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:27:20 -0400 Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.202.64]:701 "EHLO sccrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262141AbVF1Q0a (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:26:30 -0400 Message-ID: <42C179D5.3040603@nodivisions.com> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:24:53 -0400 From: Anthony DiSante User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: oom-killings, but I'm not out of memory! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I'm running a 2.6.11 kernel. I have 1 gig of RAM and 1 gig of swap. Lately when my RAM gets full, the oom-killer takes out either Mozilla or Thunderbird (my two biggest memory hogs), even though my swap space is only 20% full. I still have ~800 MB of free swap space, so shouldn't the kernel push Moz or T-bird into swap instead of oom-killing it? At their maximum memory-hogging capacity, neither Moz nor T-bird is ever using more than 200 MB. Thanks, Anthony DiSante http://nodivisions.com/ Jun 28 12:09:09 soma oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x80d2 ... Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Free swap = 781012kB Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Total swap = 987988kB Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Out of Memory: Killed process 30787 (thunderbird-bin). Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Out of Memory: Killed process 18112 (thunderbird-bin). Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Out of Memory: Killed process 18116 (thunderbird-bin). Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Out of Memory: Killed process 18117 (thunderbird-bin). Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Out of Memory: Killed process 18119 (thunderbird-bin). Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Out of Memory: Killed process 8857 (thunderbird-bin).