From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266236AbUHGFFe (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2004 01:05:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266240AbUHGFFe (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2004 01:05:34 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:50876 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266236AbUHGFF1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2004 01:05:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 22:03:51 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "admin@wodkahexe.de" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Problem with OOMKiller 2.6.8-rc3 Message-Id: <20040806220351.5e2b69b0.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040806195709.160722fa.admin@wodkahexe.de> References: <20040806195709.160722fa.admin@wodkahexe.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "admin@wodkahexe.de" wrote: > > today i tried to burn a cd (bin+cue image) that was located on an > nfs share. > > - boot 2.6.8-rc3 > - startx > - start k3b > - burn image > > after ~50% of burning the mouse stopped moving over the screen. the > keyboard was dead. What sort of CD was it? Audio? Judging by k3b.org, I'd say it was. > the maschine was reachable via network, so i ssh'd and saw the > following in dmesg: > > laptop oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2 > laptop DMA per-cpu: > laptop cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 > laptop cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 > laptop Normal per-cpu: > laptop cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 > laptop cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 > laptop HighMem per-cpu: empty > laptop > laptop Free pages: 2192kB (0kB HighMem) > laptop Active:2113 inactive:643 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:548 slab:2233 mapped:1518 pagetables:210 > laptop DMA free:1376kB min:20kB low:40kB high:60kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:16384kB > laptop protections[]: 10 354 354 > laptop Normal free:816kB min:688kB low:1376kB high:2064kB active:8452kB inactive:2572kB present:491456kB All your memory seems to have gone away. There's a memory leak associated with audio writing which we haven't yet tracked down - it's probably that.