Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:53:49 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: OOM in 2.6.19-rc* |
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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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