Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261416AbUKSNlK (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:41:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261414AbUKSNkX (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:40:23 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:17331 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261412AbUKSNiY (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:38:24 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 06:09:46 -0200 From: Marcelo Tosatti To: Andrew Morton Cc: Martin MOKREJ__ , piggin@cyberone.com.au, chris@tebibyte.org, 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 Message-ID: <20041119080946.GA30845@logos.cnet> References: <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> <419D383D.4000901@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> <20041118160824.3bfc961c.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041118160824.3bfc961c.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 985 Lines: 25 On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 04:08:24PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Martin MOKREJ__ wrote: > > > > 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. > > We haven't made any changes to the oom-killer algorithm since July 2003. > Weird. As Thomas Gleixner has investigated, the OOM killer selection is problematic. When testing your ignore-page-referenced patch it first killed the memory hog then shortly afterwards the shell I was running it on. You've seen Thomas emails, he has nice description there. - 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/