From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262533AbULDHAL (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2004 02:00:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262534AbULDHAL (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2004 02:00:11 -0500 Received: from av6-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net ([81.228.8.107]:62676 "EHLO av6-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262533AbULDHAG (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2004 02:00:06 -0500 Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 08:00:04 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200412040700.iB4704311162@d1o405.telia.com> From: "Voluspa" Reply-To: "Voluspa" To: andrea@suse.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom killer (Core) X-Mailer: SF Webmail X-SF-webmail-clientstamp: [213.64.150.229] 2004-12-04 08:00:04 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2004-12-03 23:08:55 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: >You mean my patch is preventing your machine to boot? Then you're doing >something else wrong because it's impossible my patch is preventing >your machine to boot. Same experience as Thomas here. Full stop like his first log (no errors) . PIII (Celeron) 900@1 gig, 256 meg mem, 1 gig swap, preempt enabled. Tried your patch since the oom killer slaughtered a very important app here when another one ran amok. Not fork spawnings, just ram-eating. Was blender (3d renderer) in "Sequence Editor" mode when i hit alt-a (for animate) on a pretty large set of stills. Eventually blender got killed also, twice... Kernel 2.6.9 with nick p-s? patch for the buggy kswapd (100 percent cpu, without using any swap). Mvh Mats Johannesson