Re: Out of memory and no killable processes: 2.6.22-2-686-bigmem

[Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel-20071219@schottelius.org>]

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Hello Robert,

Robert Hancock [Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 06:43:22PM -0600]:
> How much RAM is in these machines?

8 GiB

> If you're running tons of memory, it 
> really is better to run a 64-bit kernel if possible.

Sure? Afaik that results in a bit slower access to memory and appart
from being able to address MUCH more memory doesn't change the
situation.

Perhaps I missed something.

And updating to 64 Bit kernel also implies changing the userland, so
a reinstall would be necessary, wouldn't it?

> I believe there are 
> some cases where low memory can be pretty easily exhausted on machines with 
> lots of high memory.

Some minutes ago the third machine of that type freezed.
with 7 GiB of *free* memory, before getting oom+panic.

The thing that looks pretty the same is that the inode table / open
inodes shrinked very heavy from 41k to about 2k before the freeze
in about 3 days.

Same kernel, same Dell 1955 hardware, different machine.

Is it possible to debug this issue somehow?

Nico

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