2001-12-10 08:12:06

by Abraham vd Merwe

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Subject: 2.4.16 & OOM killer screw up

Hi!

If I leave my machine on for a day or two without doing anything on it (e.g.
my machine at work over a weekend) and I come back then 1) all my memory is
used for buffers/caches and when I try running application, the OOM killer
kicks in, tries to allocate swap space (which I don't have) and kills
whatever I try start (that's with 300M+ memory in buffers/caches).

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Regards
Abraham

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2001-12-10 20:03:16

by Marcelo Tosatti

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Subject: Re: 2.4.16 & OOM killer screw up



On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Abraham vd Merwe wrote:

> Hi!
>
> If I leave my machine on for a day or two without doing anything on it (e.g.
> my machine at work over a weekend) and I come back then 1) all my memory is
> used for buffers/caches and when I try running application, the OOM killer
> kicks in, tries to allocate swap space (which I don't have) and kills
> whatever I try start (that's with 300M+ memory in buffers/caches).

Abraham,

I'll take a look at this issue as soon as pre8 is released.

2001-12-11 00:04:14

by Andrea Arcangeli

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Subject: Re: 2.4.16 & OOM killer screw up

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:14:52AM +0200, Abraham vd Merwe wrote:
> Hi!
>
> If I leave my machine on for a day or two without doing anything on it (e.g.
> my machine at work over a weekend) and I come back then 1) all my memory is
> used for buffers/caches and when I try running application, the OOM killer
> kicks in, tries to allocate swap space (which I don't have) and kills
> whatever I try start (that's with 300M+ memory in buffers/caches).

I'd try 2.4.17pre4aa1.

Andrea