Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:43:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:43:41 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:18438 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:43:23 -0500 Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.19-pre3-ac1 To: MrChuoi@yahoo.com Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 01:55:53 +0000 (GMT) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020319012940.430CC4E534@mail.vnsecurity.net> from "MrChuoi" at Mar 19, 2002 08:39:41 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Monday 18 March 2002 06:44 pm, Alan Cox wrote: > > > - 2.4.19-pre-ac: kswapd try to swap out and access disk continuously. > > > Whole system is slow down and un-interactivable. > > > > echo "2" >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory > Couldn't load JBuilder (Out of memomy). Good. Thats working - it stopped you even potentially getting out of memory which is what that overcommit mode is supposed to do. Basically it'll stop you before you risk OOM cases > build and run my project from inside JBuilder. But OOM killer still doesn't > work (2nd). Anyway, thank you. I will play with your Magic numbers later, > Wizard ;). There are still alot of things to play with. Rik is the wizard for the rmap oom. He posted a test patch to fix some OOM logic. I'm just doing the code so you can decide OOM is not permitted to occur 8) - 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/