On Tue, 01 May 2007 15:42:30 +1000 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > hm, a genuine oom on an all-ext3 data=ordered i386 system, just like a > > million other people. How very weird. > > > > I assume all those pages on the LRU are pagecache pages which for some > > reason we're unable to reclaim. > > It looks like it used up all swap? I'd guess a memory leak in some > application, or maybe a page refcount leak somewhere. yes, I missed that. The number of mapped pages is tiny so the thing has been trying to swap out like. The question is: how much memory is free after the oom-killing storm? If it's "lots" then it's probably an application problem. If it's "not much" then perhaps there's a kernel leak. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
