Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Oct 2004 12:33:23 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Mem issues in 2.6.9 (ever since 2.6.9-rc3) and possible cause |
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Javier Marcet <javier@marcet.info> wrote: > > I've been following quite closely the development of 2.6.9, testing > every -rc release and a lot of -bk's. > > Upon changing from 2.6.9-rc2 to 2.6.9-rc3 I began experiencing random > oom kills whenever a high memory i/o load took place.
Do you have swap online?
What sort of machine is it, and how much memory has it?
> This happened with plenty of free memory, and with whatever values I > used for vm.overcommit_ratio and vm.overcommit_memory > Doubling the physical RAM didn't change the situation either. > > Having traced the problem to 2.6.9-rc3, I took a look at the differences > in memory handling between 2.6.9-rc2 and 2.6.9-rc3 and with the attached > patch I have no more oom kills. Not a single one. > > I'm not saying everything within the patch is needed, not even that it's > the right thing to change. Nonetheless, 2.6.9 vanilla was unusable, > while this avoids those memory leaks.
That patch only affects NUMA machines? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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