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SubjectRe: OOM in 2.6.19-rc*
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_).

Tim
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