Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261480AbVBRUNt (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:13:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261482AbVBRUJx (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:09:53 -0500 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:34965 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261499AbVBRUJB (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:09:01 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.10-ac12 + kernbench == oom-killer: (OSDL) From: Alan Cox To: Cliff White Cc: Andries Brouwer , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <20050208145707.1ebbd468@es175> <20050209013617.GC2686@pclin040.win.tue.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1108757251.17213.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:07:33 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 711 Lines: 17 On Gwe, 2005-02-18 at 16:55, Cliff White wrote: > Okay, with just vm.overcommit=2, things are still bad: > http://khack.osdl.org/stp/300854/logs/TestRunFailed.console.log.txt > > Suggestion for vm.overcommit_ratio ? > Or should i repeat with later -ac ? Thats showing up problems in the core code still. The OOM in this case is because the kernel is deciding it is out of memory when it's merely constipated with dirty pages for disk write by the look of it. Alan - 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/