Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262605AbUC2ENJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2004 23:13:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262608AbUC2ENJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2004 23:13:09 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:11139 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262605AbUC2ENH (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2004 23:13:07 -0500 Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 20:12:59 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: "John Stoffel" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.5-rc2-mm1 - swapoff dies with OOM, why? Message-Id: <20040328201259.1c8ee95c.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <16487.35872.160526.477780@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <16487.35872.160526.477780@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 577 Lines: 13 "John Stoffel" wrote: > > I've run into a strange situation here. I was having *terrible* > performance while doing a complile of the 2.6.5-rc2-mm2 kernel Were you using rc2-mm1 at the time? It had a memory leak in ext3. Lots of memroy was leaked, so swapoff cannot get sufficient memory to do its thing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/