From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: oom killer gone nuts
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:15:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050120131556.GC10457@pclin040.win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050120123402.GA4782@suse.de>
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:34:06PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Using current BK on my x86-64 workstation, it went completely nuts today
> killing tasks left and right with oodles of free memory available.
Yes, the fact that the oom-killer exists is a serious problem.
People work on trying to tune it, instead of just removing it.
I am getting reports that also in overcommit mode 2 (no overcommit,
no oom-killer ever needed) processes are killed by the oom-killer
(on 2.6.10).
Andries
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-20 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-20 12:34 Jens Axboe
2005-01-20 13:15 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2005-01-20 14:00 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-20 18:15 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-20 17:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-20 20:52 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-20 21:57 ` Chris Friesen
2005-01-20 23:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-21 7:42 ` Jens Axboe
2005-01-21 8:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-21 8:09 ` Jens Axboe
2005-01-21 8:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-21 8:46 ` Jens Axboe
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