From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "John Stoffel" <stoffel@lucent.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.5-rc2-mm1 - swapoff dies with OOM, why?
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 20:12:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040328201259.1c8ee95c.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16487.35872.160526.477780@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
"John Stoffel" <stoffel@lucent.com> wrote:
>
> I've run into a strange situation here. I was having *terrible*
> performance while doing a complile of the 2.6.5-rc2-mm2 kernel
Were you using rc2-mm1 at the time? It had a memory leak in ext3. Lots of
memroy was leaked, so swapoff cannot get sufficient memory to do its thing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-29 4:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-29 2:38 John Stoffel
2004-03-29 4:12 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-03-29 15:02 ` John Stoffel
2004-03-29 16:18 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-03-29 22:02 ` John Stoffel
2004-03-29 22:34 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-03-29 7:58 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
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