Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262429AbVCWWuZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:50:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262408AbVCWWuY (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:50:24 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:37330 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262429AbVCWWuT (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:50:19 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:49:53 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: cmm@us.ibm.com Cc: andrea@suse.de, mjbligh@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: OOM problems on 2.6.12-rc1 with many fsx tests Message-Id: <20050323144953.288a5baf.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1111607584.5786.55.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20050315204413.GF20253@csail.mit.edu> <20050316003134.GY7699@opteron.random> <20050316040435.39533675.akpm@osdl.org> <20050316183701.GB21597@opteron.random> <1111607584.5786.55.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-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: 726 Lines: 16 Mingming Cao wrote: > > I run into OOM problem again on 2.6.12-rc1. I run some(20) fsx tests on > 2.6.12-rc1 kernel(and 2.6.11-mm4) on ext3 filesystem, after about 10 > hours the system hit OOM, and OOM keep killing processes one by one. I don't have a very good record reading these oom dumps lately, but this one look really weird. Basically no mapped memory, tons of pagecache on the LRU. It would be interesting if you could run the same test on 2.6.11. - 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/