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Thanks for the response Mikael. Is your 486 running a IDE disk on a normal interface or via USB? I wonder if the NSLU2 only having I/O via USB might be significant. Also, this is a 2.6 kernel and I've seen spurious reports across the internet about similar oom-killer problems since about 2.6.7. Thanks! -Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mikael Pettersson" <mikpe@it.uu.se> To: <joshin@hotmail.com>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 3:55 PM Subject: Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts > I'm no VM tuning expert, but I have and still do heavy compile > jobs on similarly configured machines, with no OOM problems: > > I regularly build 2.6 kernels and occasionally also gcc on a > 100MHz 486 with 28MB of RAM and perhaps 500MB of swap. It runs > a standard but stripped down Fedora Core 4 user-space, with ext3 > file systems and a kernel that doesn't include anything non-essential. > The machine will swap madly, but the OOM killer never triggers. > (All system settings are FC4 defaults. I haven't touched them.) > > In the past I did a fair amount of package rebuilds and test suite > runs on an NSLU2 myself, with a 2.4 Linksys/Openslug kernel, ext3, > and a 1GB or perhaps 2GB swap partition on a disk attached via a > USB2-to-PATA enclosure. Even when swapping heavily the OOM killer > wouldn't trigger. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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