From: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
To: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux machines dieing in swap storms
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:55:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4720F4C9.9000908@simon.arlott.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1193325641.5776.21.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On 25/10/07 16:20, Richard Purdie wrote:
> This isn't a new problem. My mail server used to be running an ancient
> 2.6.12 kernel and I upgraded it to 2.6.22.X in an effort to solve this
> problem which no change. My desktop shows exactly the same kind of OOM
> swap storm behaviour (2.6.20 based).
>
> I realise that tuning the OOM killer is a really tricky problem but
> something needs improving as the current user experience is broken.
>
> I'm seriously tempted to add a "kill the process using the most memory"
> key combination into SysRq which might let me save the desktop but won't
> help with my remote server. I could also just disable swap I guess.
I have no swap. If I accidentally start The GIMP and load a very large
image, everything just freezes and I have to reboot - the OOM killer
doesn't appear to care.
--
Simon Arlott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-25 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-25 15:20 Linux machines dieing in swap storms Richard Purdie
2007-10-25 16:13 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-25 18:28 ` Richard Purdie
2007-10-25 18:34 ` Rik van Riel
2007-10-25 19:55 ` Simon Arlott [this message]
2007-10-26 2:08 ` David Newall
2007-10-26 15:14 ` Lenar Lõhmus
[not found] <9icP2-2hb-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <9ifML-6Xs-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-10-26 3:56 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-10-26 4:03 ` Rik van Riel
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