From: Roland Bless <bless@tm.uka.de>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Roland Bless <bless@tm.uka.de>,
miquels@cistron.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
walter@tm.uka.de, winter@tm.uka.de, doll@tm.uka.de
Subject: Re: Fix for wrong OOM killer trigger?
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 13:09:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030920110928.GA24934@vorta.ipv6.tm.uka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030919192544.GC1312@velociraptor.random>
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 09:25:44PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> can you try with 2.4.22aa1? the oom killer there will only work on tasks
> that are allocating memory, not on idle daemons, so the probability of
> killing rsync first should be higher. stock SuSE 8.1 kernel should do
> the same too.
This will only help to avoid not shooting important daemons.
The real cause, however, seems to be that the filesystem cache
memory is not properly re-used when it should, or, that it tries to
allocate a huge amount memory. The programs themselves do not
allocate much memory! It must be the system, because I also
ran programs with memory restrictions by ulimit. The programs
are definitely not allocating the memory, and, 4GB RAM are really
enough for a simple file server like ours.
Regards,
Roland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-20 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-19 17:16 Roland Bless
2003-09-19 17:30 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-09-19 19:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-19 19:35 ` Russell King
2003-09-19 20:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-19 20:52 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-19 21:05 ` Formal complaint , " Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-09-20 6:36 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-20 3:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-20 4:30 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-20 12:22 ` Bernd Schmidt
2003-09-20 13:52 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-09-20 13:54 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-20 19:56 ` Gateways (was Re: Fix for wrong OOM killer trigger?) Jamie Lokier
2003-09-20 20:14 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-21 11:52 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-20 16:07 ` Fix for wrong OOM killer trigger? Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-20 14:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-20 15:13 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-20 17:14 ` Flames (was: Fix for wrong OOM killer trigger?) Stephen Satchell
2003-09-20 17:46 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-21 10:40 ` Fix for wrong OOM killer trigger? Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-21 14:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-21 14:52 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-21 15:53 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-23 12:46 ` Bas Mevissen
2003-09-20 11:09 ` Roland Bless [this message]
2003-09-20 14:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-22 10:11 ` Roland Bless
2003-09-22 13:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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