Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933149AbXAYAgo (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:36:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933104AbXAYAg0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:36:26 -0500 Received: from smtp103.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.213]:40547 "HELO smtp103.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S933116AbXAYAgW (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:36:22 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=sPaoL1ac3dc1Z7tZ8tjVBZsfFkRN8XGJB81n2Mz2ZxUzPfLiF8nF2Xu6BeB33NzRjW9DWvhXxEDHj3luY60f4o/3a2INP5qr9kKF53auHu+RvlzXc/1zT5i4TTFYFAEjdZzv8dTc3M4ktQmyq0zI+eiG4kd0xt+rlWauBtsvjEM= ; X-YMail-OSG: 4Ona76sVM1ky.Jp39_.OBcWeEAiZ6gDARngn0KdR48NuIq7j44EzMPeub5DY0E13i1AQAn2TTA-- Message-ID: <45B7FB71.5030603@yahoo.com.au> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:36:01 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin Piszcz CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2 References: <20070122115703.97ed54f3.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: 1183 Lines: 32 Justin Piszcz wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: >>After the oom-killing, please see if you can free up the ZONE_NORMAL memory >>via a few `echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' commands. See if you can >>work out what happened to the missing couple-of-hundred MB from >>ZONE_NORMAL. >> > > Running with PREEMPT OFF lets me copy the file!! The machine LAGS > occasionally every 5-30-60 seconds or so VERY BADLY, talking 5-10 seconds > of lag, but hey, it does not crash!! I will boot the older kernel with > preempt on and see if I can get you that information you requested. It wouldn't be a bad idea to recompile the new kernel with preempt on and get the info from there. It is usually best to be working with the most recent kernels. We can always backport any important fixes if we need to. Thanks, Nick -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. 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/