Re: OOM in 2.6.19-rc*

["Benoit Boissinot" <bboissin@gmail.com>]

On 11/11/06, Christian Kujau <evil@g-house.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> a few days ago I upgraded my desktop machine (x86_64) to ubuntu/edgy
> thus completely changing the userland. Since I'm using kernel.org
> kernels I upgraded to a current kernel as well (2.6.19-rc4-git from Nov
> 4 and 2.6.19-rc4-mm2). Now, while working under X11, probably reading
> email, all of a sudden the machine was not responsible any more and the
> disk was spinning like wild. The desktop applet showed all swap being
> used up then the display froze too and ~5 min later the machine came
> back with the gnome-login screen: it had not rebooted but ran OOM and
> several apps got killed.
>
Just a thought, do you have a swap activated ? (there is a bug in edgy
where the swap isn't mounted)

regards,

Benoit