Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751237AbWI2Bjs (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:39:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751238AbWI2Bjs (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:39:48 -0400 Received: from smtp109.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.219]:24666 "HELO smtp109.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751237AbWI2Bjr (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:39:47 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=u9vWc9ejx0PhfFF/rnRfYiljGH3JU5ENR1wVkBqz4SOTaVFOj5dpB5baOV2ZpA+ShPKFqmjx7N4BUNPx5t4h6RU4fsNljuMhC33uHVKQAtVx2Aain7vh1tnkhbsr1NNDZeij62Vrg38JhOGXXIZ2D7RdC4uuBNWx1jX2rj+ezec= ; Message-ID: <451C795E.3090500@yahoo.com.au> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:39:42 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060216 Debian/1.7.12-1.1ubuntu2 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roman Zippel CC: Andrew Morton , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: oom kill oddness. References: <20060927205435.GF1319@redhat.com> <20060928171706.bee0c50b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 781 Lines: 27 Roman Zippel wrote: >Hi, > >On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >>Kernel versions please, guys. There have been a lot of oom-killer changes >>post-2.6.18. >> > >Last I tested this was with 2.6.18. >The latest changes to vmscan.c should help... > It would be good if you could confirm that. I basically got the kernel to the point where it used up all swap before going OOM on the workload I was looking at (MySQL running in virtual machines). -- Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.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/