Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263222AbUKUMFT (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Nov 2004 07:05:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263257AbUKUMCx (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Nov 2004 07:02:53 -0500 Received: from 213-239-205-147.clients.your-server.de ([213.239.205.147]:54187 "EHLO debian.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261951AbUKUMCC (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Nov 2004 07:02:02 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de To: Martin =?iso-8859-2?Q?MOKREJ=A9?= Cc: Andrew Morton , piggin@cyberone.com.au, chris@tebibyte.org, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, andrea@novell.com, LKML , linux-mm@kvack.org, Rik van Riel In-Reply-To: <419FB4CD.7090601@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> 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> <419D383D.4000901@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> <20041118160824.3bfc961c.akpm@osdl.org> <419E821F.7010601@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> <1100946207.2635.202.camel@thomas> <419F2AB4.30401@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> <1100957349.2635.213.camel@thomas> <419FB4CD.7090601@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Organization: linutronix Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:53:19 +0100 Message-Id: <1101037999.23692.5.camel@thomas> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1129 Lines: 31 On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 22:19 +0100, Martin MOKREJ? wrote: > > It should only kill RNAsubopt and bash and touch nothing else. > > Yes, that's true, this patch has helped. Actually the other xterm got > closed, but that's because bash is the controlling application of it. > I believe that's expected. > > I'd prefer to get only RNAsubopt killed. ;) Ok. To kill only RNAsubopt it might be neccecary to refine the criteria in the whom to kill selection. > And still, there weren't > that many changes to memory management between 2.6.9-rc1 and 2.6.9-rc2. ;) > I can test those VM changes separately, if someone would provide me with > those changes split into 2 or 3 patchsets. The oom trouble was definitly not invented there. The change between 2.6.9-rc1 and rc2 is justs triggering your special testcase. Other testcases show the problems with earlier 2.6 kernels too. tglx - 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/