From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 18:57:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 18:57:37 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:40204 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 18:57:22 -0500 Subject: Re: Getting Out of Memory errors at random intervals. To: abrink@ns.brink.cx (Andrew Brink) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 00:09:14 +0000 (GMT) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020113233647.GA1198@ns.brink.cx> from "Andrew Brink" at Jan 13, 2002 05:36:47 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:45:42PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Run something that has a sane VM in all the known awkward cases (eg the Red Hat > > 2.4.9 tree) and you should be just fine. If not I'd be interested to know > > I take it the vanilla 2.4.9 would also do? Nothing like it. The 2.4.9-RH tree is very different VM wise from the 2.4.9 base tree. Linus never took the VM updates from it. > > Andrea -aa vm patches or Rik's rmap-11b patch. Both of which seem to help > > no end. > > As for High loads....these boxes don't even get a load. I suspect they are - possibly only a sudden sharp burst of web traffic causing a lot of cgi/mysql/apache process activity. Alan