Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:38:05 +0100 (CET) | From | Tim Schmielau <> | Subject | Re: OOM in 2.6.19-rc* |
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On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Christian Kujau wrote:
> 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 :(
A look at /proc/*/oom_score might shed some light on the "at random" part. I.e., doing for job in /proc/[0-9]* ; do \ echo -e "`cat $job/oom_score` \t $job \t `head -c50 $job/cmdline`"; \ done | sort -n the last process listed is considered the biggest memory hog of the moment (Of course, this still does not tell _why_).
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