Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 4 Mar 2003 12:58:11 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alastair Stevens <> | Subject | VM / OOM troubles in 2.4.20-ck4 (-aa VM) |
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Hi Guys - I was surprised to discover that the very latest 2.4.20 kernels running the latest -ck patches still have major VM problems, even with the -aa VM.
Our dual Athlon server with 512Mb RAM / 1.2Gb swap, and not particularly heavily loaded, lasted 81 days with 2.4.20-ck1 under RH8.0, and then succumbed with these errors:
VM error: killing process wineserver _alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
This time, it only lasted _3 days_ with -ck4 before the same thing happened.
I presume this is the OOM killer? Swap is indeed full, but I've no idea why, on a machine that's only running a couple of instances of a small Windoze app under WINE.
Is there a problem here? Should I just give up and run 2.5? ;-)
Cheers Alastair .-=-. __________________________________,' `. \ www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk Alastair Stevens, Systems Management Team \ 01223 330383 MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge UK `=....................... - 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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