Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750727AbVITXyF (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:54:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750729AbVITXyF (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:54:05 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:19321 "EHLO pd5mo3so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750727AbVITXyE (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:54:04 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:53:58 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: help interpreting oom-killer output In-reply-to: <4OY0C-5kE-59@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <4330A116.1040107@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <4OY0C-5kE-59@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 923 Lines: 25 Christopher Friesen wrote: > > I'm running a modified 2.6.10 on an x86 uniprocessor system. I keep > having processes killed by the oom killer at the same place while > running LTP. The system has gigs of memory, so I find this kind of odd. > > Could someone help me interpret the oom-killer output? The first log > looks like this. Looks like you were running out of ZONE_NORMAL memory (below 896MB). There is lots of high memory available but the allocation could not be satisfied from there. I would try a newer kernel.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - 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/