From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751207AbWFZRjK (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:39:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751208AbWFZRjJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:39:09 -0400 Received: from smtp104.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.214]:23994 "HELO smtp104.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751207AbWFZRjI (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:39:08 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=ZnZ0Ah9dnyRYTI6NIzKuSw9CcnwWvEriD2ikQVZp1Tm52QCleG5ZjoqhgCfiunADeOA8qS58o97OuDYwWDV/WD5qyBCsyGV4aczU6KCmf0cfxm1FwQHCUsubfkq8u9y2TRy3qgMmrLImwviygILVXe27g+bVCjy1kSUU2vJYnD0= ; Message-ID: <44A01BBB.3070903@yahoo.com.au> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 03:39:07 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Piggin CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Memory Management List , Andrew Morton , "David S. Peterson" , Paul Jackson Subject: Re: [rfc][patch] fixes for several oom killer problems References: <20060626162038.GB7573@wotan.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20060626162038.GB7573@wotan.suse.de> 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 Nick Piggin wrote: > Hi, > > We have reports of OOM killer panicing the system even if there are > tasks currently exiting and/or plenty able to be freed. > BTW, I should credit Jan Beulich with spotting some of the issues and helping to debug the problem. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com