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SubjectRe: OOM in 2.6.19-rc*
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 06:38:05PM +0000, Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >Can you test whether an older kernel (preferably the one that worked
> >before) shows the same problem?
>
> I could try 2.6.17...but currently I don't know how to reproduce the OOM
> condition - so I'd have to wait 24h until *something* happens and the
> OOM killer kicks in.

If you want to know what caused your provlem, this is the logical first
step.

> >This way you might know whether it's a kernel problem or a distribution
> >problem.
>
> I think I'm more interested as to why the OOM killer seems to kill
> innocent apps at random. I can imagine that it's not easy for the kernel
> to tell which userland-application is using up too much memory. Hm,
> egrep -r "OOM|ut of memory" Documentation/ does not reveal much :(

mm/oom_kill.c is well documented.

> Thanks,
> Christian.

cu
Adrian

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