Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965768AbXAYLLk (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:11:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965762AbXAYLLk (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:11:40 -0500 Received: from lucidpixels.com ([75.144.35.66]:38272 "EHLO lucidpixels.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965756AbXAYLLj (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:11:39 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:11:38 -0500 (EST) From: Justin Piszcz X-X-Sender: jpiszcz@p34.internal.lan To: Nick Piggin 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 In-Reply-To: <45B7FB71.5030603@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: References: <20070122115703.97ed54f3.akpm@osdl.org> <45B7FB71.5030603@yahoo.com.au> 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 Content-Length: 1555 Lines: 45 On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > 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-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > In my tests for the most part I am using the latest kernels. Justin. - 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/