From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264533AbTLVLkJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2003 06:40:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264796AbTLVLkJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2003 06:40:09 -0500 Received: from intra.cyclades.com ([64.186.161.6]:14774 "EHLO intra.cyclades.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264533AbTLVLkF (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2003 06:40:05 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 09:27:01 -0200 (BRST) From: Marcelo Tosatti X-X-Sender: marcelo@logos.cnet To: Octave Cc: Tomas Szepe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andrea@suse.de Subject: Re: lot of VM problem with 2.4.23 In-Reply-To: <20031221234350.GD4897@ovh.net> Message-ID: References: <20031221001422.GD25043@ovh.net> <1071999003.2156.89.camel@abyss.local> <20031221184709.GO25043@ovh.net> <20031221185959.GE1494@louise.pinerecords.com> <20031221234350.GD4897@ovh.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Cyclades-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Cyclades-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Octave wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 07:59:59PM +0100, Tomas Szepe wrote: > > On Dec-21 2003, Sun, 19:47 +0100 > > Octave wrote: > > > > > You can run this easy script. 2.4.19 takes about 30 minutes > > > to kill all process. 2.4.23 takes about 60 minutes. > > > > Can you also try 2.4.24-pre1 with the OOM killer enabled? > > I complied 2.4.24-pre1 with OOM killer. After 2 minutes of > test, server is down. Hi Octave, What do you mean with "server is down" ? The OOM killer killed an application ? What were the messages? Under out of memory, 2.4.22 should also kill a process, but you say it doesnt.