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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: help interpreting oom-killer output
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:53:58 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4330A116.1040107@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4OY0C-5kE-59@gated-at.bofh.it>

Christopher Friesen wrote:
> 
> I'm running a modified 2.6.10 on an x86 uniprocessor system.  I keep 
> having processes killed by the oom killer at the same place while 
> running LTP.  The system has gigs of memory, so I find this kind of odd.
> 
> Could someone help me interpret the oom-killer output?  The first log 
> looks like this.

Looks like you were running out of ZONE_NORMAL memory (below 896MB). 
There is lots of high memory available but the allocation could not be 
satisfied from there.

I would try a newer kernel..

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Robert Hancock      Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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       reply	other threads:[~2005-09-20 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4OY0C-5kE-59@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-09-20 23:53 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2005-09-21  5:03   ` help interpreting oom-killer output Christopher Friesen
2005-09-20 21:37 Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 13:37 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-09-21 16:07   ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 17:34   ` Christopher Friesen

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