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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: AChittenden@bluearc.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	lwoodman@redhat.com, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Out of Memory: Killed process 16498 (java).
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:49:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060119174920.4a842f03.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060120012844.GE3798@redhat.com>

Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The Fedora user in the bug report
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=175173
> who on x86-64 with 5GB saw zone_dma exhausted saw a similar result,
> delays the kill, but it does still happen.

Again, that person's ZONE_DMA has *zero* pages on the LRU.  Something has
consumed all of the piddling little zone for kernel data structures.  It is
a true oom.

We need to work out who is using all this ZONE_DMA memory and make them
stop it.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-20  1:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-19 15:11 Andy Chittenden
2006-01-19 19:48 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-19 22:15   ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-20  8:12     ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-20  8:23       ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-20 12:08         ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-20 12:17           ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-20 12:28             ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-20 12:51               ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-20  1:03   ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-20  1:28     ` Dave Jones
2006-01-20  1:49       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-01-21 20:00         ` Dan Aloni
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-27 11:53 Andy Chittenden
2006-01-27 14:21 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-27 14:39   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-01-23 10:03 Andy Chittenden
2006-01-23 10:11 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-21 21:47 Andy Chittenden
2006-01-23  9:27 ` Jens Axboe
     [not found] <89E85E0168AD994693B574C80EDB9C27035561DE@uk-email.terastack.bluearc.com>
2006-01-20 17:39 ` Jens Axboe
     [not found] <89E85E0168AD994693B574C80EDB9C27035560E4@uk-email.terastack.bluearc.com>
2006-01-20 12:37 ` Larry Woodman
     [not found] <89E85E0168AD994693B574C80EDB9C2703555F8E@uk-email.terastack.bluearc.com>
2006-01-19  9:44 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-19  9:40 Andy Chittenden
2006-01-19  9:41 ` Con Kolivas
2006-01-19  8:43 Andy Chittenden
2006-01-19  8:56 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-19  9:36   ` Con Kolivas
2006-01-19 20:54 ` Martin Bligh

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