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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: oom kill oddness.
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:39:42 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <451C795E.3090500@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609290231460.6761@scrub.home>

Roman Zippel wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>
>>Kernel versions please, guys.  There have been a lot of oom-killer changes
>>post-2.6.18.
>>
>
>Last I tested this was with 2.6.18.
>The latest changes to vmscan.c should help...
>

It would be good if you could confirm that. I basically got the kernel to
the point where it used up all swap before going OOM on the workload I
was looking at (MySQL running in virtual machines).

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-29  1:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-27 20:54 oom kill oddness Dave Jones
2006-09-27 23:59 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-28 23:03 ` Roman Zippel
2006-09-29  0:17   ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-29  0:22     ` Dave Jones
2006-09-29  0:57     ` Roman Zippel
2006-09-29  1:39       ` Nick Piggin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-09-29 20:03 Larry Woodman
2006-09-29 21:34 ` Dave Jones

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