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From: dave b <db.pub.mail@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:39:48 +1000
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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: oom killer and swap weirdness on 2.6.3* kernels
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@kvack.org, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
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On 27 July 2010 08:12, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, dave b wrote:
>
>> Actually it turns out on 2.6.34.1 I can trigger this issue. What it
>> really is, is that linux doesn't invoke the oom killer when it should
>> and kill something off. This is *really* annoying.
>>
>
> I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to, it's been two months and
> you're using a new kernel and now you're saying that the oom killer isn't
> being utilized when the original problem statement was that it was killing
> things inappropriately?

Sorry about the timespan :(
Well actually it is the same issue. Originally the oom killer wasn't
being invoked and now the problem is still it isn't invoked - it
doesn't come and kill things - my desktop just sits :)
I have since replaced the hard disk - which I thought could be the
issue. I am thinking that because I have shared graphics not using KMS
- with intel graphics - this may be the root of the cause.

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