Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262996AbUKSAFt (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:05:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263004AbUKSAD6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:03:58 -0500 Received: from r3az252.chello.upc.cz ([213.220.243.252]:32640 "EHLO aquarius.doma") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263013AbUKSADL (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:03:11 -0500 Message-ID: <419D383D.4000901@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 01:03:09 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Martin_MOKREJ=A9?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041114 X-Accept-Language: cs, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Piggin CC: Andrew Morton , chris@tebibyte.org, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, andrea@novell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, riel@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills References: <20041111112922.GA15948@logos.cnet> <4193E056.6070100@tebibyte.org> <4194EA45.90800@tebibyte.org> <20041113233740.GA4121@x30.random> <20041114094417.GC29267@logos.cnet> <20041114170339.GB13733@dualathlon.random> <20041114202155.GB2764@logos.cnet> <419A2B3A.80702@tebibyte.org> <419B14F9.7080204@tebibyte.org> <20041117012346.5bfdf7bc.akpm@osdl.org> <419CD8C1.4030506@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> <20041118131655.6782108e.akpm@osdl.org> <419D25B5.1060504@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> <419D2987.8010305@cyberone.com.au> In-Reply-To: <419D2987.8010305@cyberone.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1173 Lines: 33 Hi, I just tested 2.6.7 and it works comparably to 2.4.28. swpd value reported by vmstat is actually 1172736, actually inspecting the previous results from 2.4.28 show also this number. But "swapon -s" reports 1172732. I'm puzzled. vmstat comes from gentoo procps-3.2.3-r1. Anyway, plain 2.6.7 kills only the application asking for so much memory and logs via syslog: Out of Memory: Killed process 58888 (RNAsubopt) It's a lot better compared to what we have in 2.6.10-rc2, from my user's view. I cannot easily reverse the tbtc patch from 2.6.10-rc2 tree, but applying the tbtc patch over 2.6.7 gives me same behaviour as on plain 2.6.7 - so only the RNAsubopt application get's killed. The problem must have been introduced between 2.6.7 and 2.6.10-rc2 but is not directly related to tbtc patch in it's original form: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109122597407401&w=2 Hope this helps. Martin - 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/