Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754853AbYFNTXc (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:23:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754072AbYFNTX0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:23:26 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.158]:65062 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753869AbYFNTXZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:23:25 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=OFJfpEarK9/pEhL5Au7uhLjrA/3g5c1yaMGau6zo/YiRhZQXC1SkERXPlgRvRWpxOX 91ahFN4Eu+2KSEOzhLjSaDztyKs8M4BHopg680UzngQEsOpExt4gjxHifhi9hAchrINq 3GQz5QxLzudGl6hoU+VXHKI/01+JO/XNUAt50= Message-ID: Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:23:23 +0200 From: "Bart Van Assche" To: "Marco Barbero" Subject: Re: OOM killer invoked on 2.6.24.4 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 916 Lines: 21 On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Marco Barbero wrote: >> One or more processes on your system used too much memory. Dumping the >> output of the following command periodically (e.g. every 10 minutes) >> to a file will tell you which process is using too much memory: > >> { ps aux | head -n 1; ps aux | sort -n +4 | tail -n 10; } > > I'll do it. Have to say that this box had an uptime of 1 month and > never show issues. Also oom was invoked in the night when load is > minimum. > Could be related to slab and the quicklist leak? Are you running the kernel in 32-bit mode ? Wouldn't it be better to run a 64 bit kernel with 4 GB RAM ? Bart. -- 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/