From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Russell Stuart <russell-lkml@stuart.id.au>
Cc: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problems with oom killer
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:57:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152705471.22943.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1152663312.4267.20.camel@ras.pc.brisbane.lube>
Ar Mer, 2006-07-12 am 10:15 +1000, ysgrifennodd Russell Stuart:
> It is running the Debian stable kernel (2.6.8.1) with
> cfq on a dual core machine. Although it shouldn't be,
2.6.8 certainly had problems in some cases where there was a lot of I/O
going on and it would out-of-memory when it should have been trying
harder to dump all the dirty pages to disk.
> Any clues would be appreciated.
Not really a fix in itself but see what happens if "sync" gets called
every 30 seconds or so during the backup that triggers the problem.
Alan
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2006-07-12 0:15 Russell Stuart
2006-07-12 0:23 ` Russell Stuart
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