Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:01:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:01:01 -0500 Received: from garrincha.netbank.com.br ([200.203.199.88]:36877 "HELO netbank.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:00:42 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:00:59 -0200 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: To: Lorenzo Allegrucci Cc: , Linus Torvalds Subject: new OOM heuristic failure (was: Re: VM: qsbench) In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20011031131253.01fb8e40@pop.tiscalinet.it> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Lorenzo Allegrucci wrote: Linus, it seems Lorenzo's test program gets killed due to the new out_of_memory() heuristic ... > Linux-2.4.14-pre6: > lenstra:~/src/qsort> time ./qsbench -n 90000000 -p 1 -s 140175100 > Out of Memory: Killed process 224 (qsbench). > 69.890u 3.430s 2:12.48 55.3% 0+0k 0+0io 16374pf+0w > lenstra:~/src/qsort> time ./qsbench -n 90000000 -p 1 -s 140175100 > Out of Memory: Killed process 226 (qsbench). > 69.550u 2.990s 2:11.31 55.2% 0+0k 0+0io 15374pf+0w > lenstra:~/src/qsort> time ./qsbench -n 90000000 -p 1 -s 140175100 > Out of Memory: Killed process 228 (qsbench). > 69.480u 3.100s 2:13.33 54.4% 0+0k 0+0io 15950pf+0w > 0:01 kswapd > > This is interesting, -pre6 killed qsbench _just_ before qsbench exited. > Unreliable results. Rik -- DMCA, SSSCA, W3C? Who cares? http://thefreeworld.net/ http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.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/