Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753810Ab0G1HPT (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:15:19 -0400 Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:41555 "EHLO mail-pw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750749Ab0G1HPM (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:15:12 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=sAb7jo7Q6Q7O8VfKS07p5flz24VBNvYKnf2XMXV0o6emLLEVpy2lTYO04yyCzN57MB m7e1ZmUO+4e0kBcRRgpOExrcs8wI9ba0sqrloeDVN5m9Fe9q54WydPeu7ebXRUtEIxfJ q2PUuYNKJyiBmj5Z+4czsz5C3W1mDmgytiB1k= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100728135850.7A92.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <20100727200804.2F40.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100728135850.7A92.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> From: dave b Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:14:52 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: PROBLEM: oom killer and swap weirdness on 2.6.3* kernels To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: David Rientjes , Hugh Dickins , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1806 Lines: 38 On 28 July 2010 15:06, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: >> On 27 July 2010 21:14, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: >> >> On 27 July 2010 18:09, dave b wrote: >> >> > On 27 July 2010 16:09, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: >> >> >>> > Do you mean the issue will be gone if disabling intel graphics? >> >> >>> It may be a general issue or it could just be specific :) >> >> > >> >> > I will try with the latest ubuntu and report how that goes (that will >> >> > be using fairly new xorg etc.) it is likely to be hidden issue just >> >> > with the intel graphics driver. However, my concern is that it isn't - >> >> > and it is about how shared graphics memory is handled :) >> >> >> >> >> >> Ok my desktop still stalled and no oom killer was invoked when I added >> >> swap to a live-cd of 10.04 amd64. >> >> >> >> *Without* *swap* *on* - the oom killer was invoked - here is a copy of it. >> > >> > This stack seems similar following bug. can you please try to disable intel graphics >> > driver? >> > >> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14933 >> >> Ok I am not sure how to do that :) >> I could revert the patch and see if it 'fixes' this :) > > Oops, no, revert is not good action. the patch is correct. > probably my explanation was not clear. sorry. > > I did hope to disable 'driver' (i.e. using vga), not disable the patch. Oh you mean in xorg, I will also blacklist the module. Sure that patch might not it but in 2.6.26 the problem isn't there :) -- 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/