From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262933AbVAFR7Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:59:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262967AbVAFR6Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:58:25 -0500 Received: from boa.mtg-marinetechnik.de ([62.153.155.10]:37358 "EHLO cascabel.mtg-marinetechnik.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262933AbVAFRvh (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:51:37 -0500 Message-ID: <41DD7A96.5060006@mtg-marinetechnik.de> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 18:51:18 +0100 From: Richard Ems Organization: MTG Marinetechnik GmbH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en, de, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hubert Mantel References: <41DD6F67.6070303@mtg-marinetechnik.de> <20050106173052.GW4597@dualathlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20050106173052.GW4597@dualathlon.random> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Subject: Re: [PROBLEM] Badness in out_of_memory (Plain) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:03:35PM +0100, Richard Ems wrote: > >>Hi list, hi Mr. Mantel, >> >>the following "badness" happened on a SuSE 9.2 with all actual updates >>and SuSE's kernel 2.6.8-24.10-smp. >>The system is a dual AMD Athlon MP 2200+ with 1GB memory and 1GB swap. > > > This is a warning only (2.6.9 had the swap token breakage that triggered > suprious oom kills, so the warning was meant to get more info), can you > try with the kernel of the day? > > http://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/9.2-i386/SL92_BRANCH > > It has my latest oom fixes that I recently posted to l-k and it should > be very reliable for the first time in oom-killer terms. > > I will try it tomorrow evening, it's a production system, so it's not so easy to "try". How can I trigger the oom kills? I'm not sure if I can easily reproduce this! Do you know a memory eater program other than starting lots of mozilla's, OpenOffices's, etc.? Thanks, Richard -- Richard Ems Tel: +49 40 65803 312 Fax: +49 40 65803 392 Richard.Ems@mtg-marinetechnik.de MTG Marinetechnik GmbH - Wandsbeker Königstr. 62 - D 22041 Hamburg GF Dipl.-Ing. Ullrich Keil Handelsregister: Abt. B Nr. 11 500 - Amtsgericht Hamburg Abt. 66 USt.-IdNr.: DE 1186 70571