Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | OOM: A Success Report | | From | Robert Love <> | | Date | 07 Jul 2001 18:00:08 -0400 |
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i thought it would be nice to finally hear something good about the OOM killer.
i am testing Evolution (Ximian's GNOME emailer/groupware app), and the latest Evolution cvs-snapshot went crazy when trying to copy a mail folder. my load averaged spiked, swap filled, and then i ran out of memory.
*poof*, Evolution was killed, and everything returned to normal.
kernel showed: Out of Memory: Killed process 1296 (evolution-mail). Out of Memory: Killed process 1296 (evolution-mail). Out of Memory: Killed process 1296 (evolution-mail). Out of Memory: Killed process 1302 (evolution-mail). Out of Memory: Killed process 1303 (evolution-mail). Out of Memory: Killed process 1306 (evolution-mail). Out of Memory: Killed process 1307 (evolution-mail).
now, i dont know if the load average spiking was evolution's fault, or not...but everything seemed to work. Good job.
-- Robert M. Love rml at ufl.edu rml at tech9.net
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