From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261452AbVAGPS7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:18:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261453AbVAGPS7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:18:59 -0500 Received: from boa.mtg-marinetechnik.de ([62.153.155.10]:43246 "EHLO cascabel.mtg-marinetechnik.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261452AbVAGPS4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:18:56 -0500 Message-ID: <41DEA855.90702@mtg-marinetechnik.de> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:18:45 +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: 0.90.0.0 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: > 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 tried it and it is working ok, when memory and swap become full processes are being killed very fast and the system becomes responsive again. Do you want me to do some specific test and send you some results? 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