Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932207AbWC1LeT (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:34:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932211AbWC1LeT (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:34:19 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:24756 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932207AbWC1LeS (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:34:18 -0500 Subject: Re: OOM kills if swappiness set to 0, swap storms otherwise From: Alan Cox To: Lee Revell Cc: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <1143510828.1792.353.camel@mindpipe> References: <1143510828.1792.353.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:41:50 +0100 Message-Id: <1143546110.17522.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 793 Lines: 20 On Llu, 2006-03-27 at 20:53 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > What is the problem here? Is the modern Linux desktop really too > bloated to run in half a gig of RAM, or is the kernel overzealous with > its OOM killing? Evolution will regularly try and eat over 1GByte of RAM. In addition it is possible for an attacker to send you a plain text email that makes it do this. If you want to run gnome & firefox & evolution you need a lot more RAM. Alternatively run something sane and sensible. Alan (whose todo list does indeed have 'new mailer' on 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/