Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422728AbWATBrn (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:47:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422731AbWATBrm (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:47:42 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:62144 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422727AbWATBrl (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:47:41 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:49:20 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Dave Jones Cc: AChittenden@bluearc.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lwoodman@redhat.com, Jens Axboe Subject: Re: Out of Memory: Killed process 16498 (java). Message-Id: <20060119174920.4a842f03.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060120012844.GE3798@redhat.com> References: <89E85E0168AD994693B574C80EDB9C270355601F@uk-email.terastack.bluearc.com> <20060119194836.GM21663@redhat.com> <20060119170305.2e8ae353.akpm@osdl.org> <20060120012844.GE3798@redhat.com> 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: 742 Lines: 19 Dave Jones wrote: > > The Fedora user in the bug report > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=175173 > who on x86-64 with 5GB saw zone_dma exhausted saw a similar result, > delays the kill, but it does still happen. Again, that person's ZONE_DMA has *zero* pages on the LRU. Something has consumed all of the piddling little zone for kernel data structures. It is a true oom. We need to work out who is using all this ZONE_DMA memory and make them stop it. - 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/