Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752282Ab0AYBsP (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:48:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751967Ab0AYBsO (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:48:14 -0500 Received: from fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.36]:60949 "EHLO fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751450Ab0AYBsN (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:48:13 -0500 X-SecurityPolicyCheck-FJ: OK by FujitsuOutboundMailChecker v1.3.1 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: "Roman Jarosz" Subject: Re: OOM-Killer kills too much with 2.6.32.2 Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, lkml In-Reply-To: References: Message-Id: <20100125104728.4935.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.50.07 [ja] Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:48:08 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 610 Lines: 18 > Hi, > > since kernel 2.6.32.2 (also tried 2.6.32.3) I get a lot of oom-killer > kills when I do hard disk intensive tasks (mainly in VirtualBox which is > running Windows XP) and IMHO it kills processes even if I have a lot of > free memory. > > Is this a known bug? I have self compiled kernel so I can try patches. Can you please post your .config? -- 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/