Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Dec 2001 19:10:54 -0200 (BRST) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.16: Out of memory - when still more than 100MB free |
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On 17 Dec 2001, Samuli Suonpaa wrote:
> I've got VMWare killed a couple of times mysteriously. > > I've got 256MB memory and no swap on my laptop running 2.4.16 and for > some reason VMWare has got killed with the following syslog > information: > > Dec 17 23:33:23 puck kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 28803 (vmware). > Dec 17 23:33:35 puck kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 28804 (vmware). > Dec 17 23:33:37 puck kernel: /dev/vmmon: Vmx86_ReleaseVM: unlocked pages: 75286, unlocked dirty pages: 51084
Samuli,
The problem is that buffer/cache/{i,d}cache pages are not getting freed easily, and instead the kernel swapouts anonymous memory.
Could you please try 2.4.17-rc1 and tell me if it makes a difference for you ?
Thanks
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