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SubjectRe: 2.4.16: Out of memory - when still more than 100MB free


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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