Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267806AbUJGSz6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 14:55:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267807AbUJGSzS (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 14:55:18 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:52205 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267826AbUJGSuM (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 14:50:12 -0400 Message-ID: <41658FDB.4070101@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 14:50:03 -0400 From: Neil Horman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0; hi, Mom) Gecko/20020604 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gabor Z. Papp" CC: Marcelo Tosatti , Michael Buesch , linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: [2.4] 0-order allocation failed References: <200410071318.21091.mbuesch@freenet.de> <20041007151518.GA14614@logos.cnet> <200410071917.40896.mbuesch@freenet.de> <20041007153929.GB14614@logos.cnet> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1489 Lines: 43 Gabor Z. Papp wrote: > * Marcelo Tosatti : > > | > > Can you check how much swap space is there available when > | > > the OOM killer trigger? I bet this is the case. > | > > | > The machine doesn't have swap. > | > | Well then you're probably facing true OOM. > | > | Add some swap. > > There is really no way to run 2.4 without swap? > > I have the same problem with nfsroot and ramdisk based setups after > 1-2 weeks uptime. > - > 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/ sure, you can run a system without swap, you just run the risk of not being able to start new processes, or OOM kills if your running processees try to allocate too much memory. You can turn the OOM killer off if you like, but then you run the risk of wedging the machine. Neil -- /*************************************************** *Neil Horman *Software Engineer *Red Hat, Inc. *nhorman@redhat.com *gpg keyid: 1024D / 0x92A74FA1 *http://pgp.mit.edu ***************************************************/ - 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/