Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:20:57 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alastair Stevens <> | Subject | Re: VM / OOM troubles in 2.4.20-ck4 (-aa VM) |
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> > 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. > > My first guess would be wine. There are all sorts of leaks in that.
It's actually CodeWeavers Wine if it makes any difference!
> I'm not aware of any memory leak / vm problems with -ck although that may be > possible. However ck4 does not have the OOM killer enabled so it's not that > in action; you simply have run out of memory and it can't allocate any more. > Have you tried without the aa vm addons in ck? Does this happen with vanilla > 2.4.20? -ck is a very different branch.
Thanks - I'm being a bit thick here, because everyone's right, it's obviously a userspace problem. The machine is now running plain 2.4.21-pre5, so we'll see what happens....
PS - thanks for your work on -ck, Con! It runs beautifully on my home machine, which isn't tortured by Wine ;-)
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