From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756196Ab0IHIzG (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2010 04:55:06 -0400 Received: from mao.cendio.se ([193.12.253.101]:44762 "EHLO mail.cendio.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750871Ab0IHIzD (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2010 04:55:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4C874F60.4080901@cendio.se> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:54:56 +0200 From: Aaron Sowry User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100806 Fedora/3.1.2-1.fc13 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Help decoding oom-killer output References: <4C8744D1.1010405@cendio.se> In-Reply-To: <4C8744D1.1010405@cendio.se> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1F7902FD Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig652EE521772169E206FD819D" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig652EE521772169E206FD819D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 08/09/10 10:09, Aaron Sowry wrote: > Since this change, oom-killer seems to think we are running out of > memory, and starts killing arbitrary processes. Output from 'free' does= > not indicate any lack of memory resource: =2E..however I have just noticed that low memory allocation appears to be= somewhat stingy, given the total amount of RAM available: tle-thn18:~ # cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 37115096 kB MemFree: 34528308 kB Buffers: 49356 kB Cached: 861024 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 1830136 kB Inactive: 549420 kB Active(anon): 1442900 kB Inactive(anon): 73056 kB Active(file): 387236 kB Inactive(file): 476364 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB HighTotal: 36931780 kB HighFree: 34520552 kB LowTotal: 183316 kB LowFree: 7756 kB SwapTotal: 4200988 kB SwapFree: 4200988 kB Dirty: 2624 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 1469264 kB Mapped: 203692 kB Shmem: 46780 kB Slab: 95460 kB SReclaimable: 31968 kB SUnreclaim: 63492 kB KernelStack: 9952 kB PageTables: 31660 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 22758536 kB Committed_AS: 4689664 kB VmallocTotal: 524288 kB VmallocUsed: 34520 kB VmallocChunk: 311868 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 8184 kB DirectMap2M: 491520 kB --=20 Aaron Sowry Developer / Technical Sales Cendio AB Wallenbergs Gata 4 583 30 LINK=D6PING Sweden aaron@cendio.se Tel + 46 13 29 08 54 Fax + 46 13 21 47 00 --------------enig652EE521772169E206FD819D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMh09lAAoJECw8YUUfeQL9YcEH/jjKIistMBAamLDO/dZbtOd7 b8jAHlT5NLH00merr8BplmHhgEsHhDZTE/SrpRgy9+LqaSak8cqVCxx6jVDIo4W+ uy+zMz+nBYNj+uqimI21To78ywsdX6ITDENDxKcY21sLnBKD6yga4Durkz8hrJuj spjD5gxi2NEA/4xsAQAG6orGV1yQa9xUYxH90dfHjdzphxwuiVIR01uKEGe9MUsK 3NHjP/ng/0jMyjz6OAECH9UfmLo0PsIumcgWBAyVn/F1ps97lKlTsh9xtGqXDFmw crHIweaXlca/HoL86mY0Vr1cw2VYky/fhNWFWIGOuIzei0PXugx8q6cxLwqDOwE= =LokX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig652EE521772169E206FD819D--