Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 06 Jan 2005 18:51:18 +0100 | From | Richard Ems <> | Subject | Re: [PROBLEM] Badness in out_of_memory (Plain) |
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:03:35PM +0100, Richard Ems wrote: > >>Hi list, hi Mr. Mantel, >> >>the following "badness" happened on a SuSE 9.2 with all actual updates >>and SuSE's kernel 2.6.8-24.10-smp. >>The system is a dual AMD Athlon MP 2200+ with 1GB memory and 1GB swap. > > > This is a warning only (2.6.9 had the swap token breakage that triggered > suprious oom kills, so the warning was meant to get more info), can you > try with the kernel of the day? > > http://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/9.2-i386/SL92_BRANCH > > It has my latest oom fixes that I recently posted to l-k and it should > be very reliable for the first time in oom-killer terms. > >
I will try it tomorrow evening, it's a production system, so it's not so easy to "try". How can I trigger the oom kills? I'm not sure if I can easily reproduce this! Do you know a memory eater program other than starting lots of mozilla's, OpenOffices's, etc.?
Thanks, Richard
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