Subject: Re: OOM kills if swappiness set to 0, swap storms otherwise
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:09:49 -0500
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On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 19:59 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Much porkiness.
> 
> /proc/meminfo is very useful for obtaining a top-level view of where all
> the memory's gone to.  I'd tentatively say that your options are to put up
> with the swapping or find a new mail client.
> 

Thanks.  It seems the problem is Evo (or possibly firefox) has a slow
memory leak.  I overlooked the fact that Evo had been running for more
than a week.

I guess the only possible kernel issue is that Evo never gets
OOM-killed, always Firefox (or OpenOffice if it's running), although
it's the biggest hog.  I'll have to investigate more.

Lee

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