Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Nov 2004 06:09:46 -0200 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills |
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On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 04:08:24PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Martin MOKREJ__ <mmokrejs@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> wrote: > > > > Anyway, plain 2.6.7 kills only the application asking for > > so much memory and logs via syslog: > > Out of Memory: Killed process 58888 (RNAsubopt) > > > > It's a lot better compared to what we have in 2.6.10-rc2, > > from my user's view. > > We haven't made any changes to the oom-killer algorithm since July 2003. > Weird.
As Thomas Gleixner has investigated, the OOM killer selection is problematic.
When testing your ignore-page-referenced patch it first killed the memory hog then shortly afterwards the shell I was running it on.
You've seen Thomas emails, he has nice description there.
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