From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: riel@conectiva.com.br
Subject: OOM: A Success Report
Date: 07 Jul 2001 18:00:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <994543220.1749.0.camel@phantasy> (raw)
i thought it would be nice to finally hear something good about the OOM
killer.
i am testing Evolution (Ximian's GNOME emailer/groupware app), and the
latest Evolution cvs-snapshot went crazy when trying to copy a mail
folder. my load averaged spiked, swap filled, and then i ran out of
memory.
*poof*, Evolution was killed, and everything returned to normal.
kernel showed:
Out of Memory: Killed process 1296 (evolution-mail).
Out of Memory: Killed process 1296 (evolution-mail).
Out of Memory: Killed process 1296 (evolution-mail).
Out of Memory: Killed process 1302 (evolution-mail).
Out of Memory: Killed process 1303 (evolution-mail).
Out of Memory: Killed process 1306 (evolution-mail).
Out of Memory: Killed process 1307 (evolution-mail).
now, i dont know if the load average spiking was evolution's fault, or
not...but everything seemed to work. Good job.
--
Robert M. Love
rml at ufl.edu
rml at tech9.net
next reply other threads:[~2001-07-07 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-07 22:00 Robert Love [this message]
2001-07-08 0:40 ` OOM: A Success Report José Luis Domingo López
2001-07-07 23:01 ` Robert Love
2001-07-08 1:20 ` Daniel Phillips
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