Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262994AbVCKAki (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:40:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263303AbVCKAkg (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:40:36 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:62881 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262994AbVCKAkJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:40:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:39:56 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Christian Kujau Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, elenstev@mesatop.com, mauriciolin@gmail.com Subject: Re: oom with 2.6.11 Message-Id: <20050310163956.0a5ff1d7.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <423063DB.40905@g-house.de> References: <422DC2F1.7020802@g-house.de> <3f250c710503090518526d8b90@mail.gmail.com> <3f250c7105030905415cab5192@mail.gmail.com> <422F016A.2090107@g-house.de> <423063DB.40905@g-house.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 613 Lines: 14 Christian Kujau wrote: > > i was going to compile 2.6.11-rc5-bk4, to sort out the "bad" kernel. > compiling went fine. ok, finished some email, ok, suddenly my swap was > used up again, and no memory left - uh oh! OOM again, with 2.6.11-rc5-bk2! Well if you ran out of swap then yes, the oom-killer will visit you. Why did you run out of swapspace? - 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/