Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261860AbVCKBP5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:15:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262244AbVCKBP4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:15:56 -0500 Received: from ns1.g-housing.de ([62.75.136.201]:14752 "EHLO mail.g-house.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261860AbVCKBOS (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:14:18 -0500 Message-ID: <4230F0E6.5080708@g-house.de> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:14:14 +0100 From: Christian Kujau User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050212) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: oom with 2.6.11 References: <422DC2F1.7020802@g-house.de> <3f250c710503090518526d8b90@mail.gmail.com> <3f250c7105030905415cab5192@mail.gmail.com> <422F016A.2090107@g-house.de> <423063DB.40905@g-house.de> <20050310163956.0a5ff1d7.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050310163956.0a5ff1d7.akpm@osdl.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1368 Lines: 35 Andrew Morton wrote: > 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? hm, if i only knew. i don't know how long it took the other night to go from "normal" to "OOM". but today, with 2.6.11-rc5-bk2 (well, yesterday actually) i was working normally, and all of a sudden swap goes from 170MB used swap (normal) to OOM. i think it took a minute or so, but i just can't tell which application went nuts. today the first process that got killed was "ssh-agent", the other day it was mysqld. but even after this, it should've released some memory, right? but the oom-killer goes on and on and kills the next task. i'll monitor memory usage tonight and see what it gives. these "pppd" messages are suspicious though. thank you, Christian. -- BOFH excuse #135: You put the disk in upside down. - 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/