To be clear, the issue here is more than just accounting. When we boot an instance in UEC with 256M or less of memory, the OOM kicks in and the system is generally not in good shape.
looking into this further, the big difference between karmic and lucid /proc/meminfo was 'LowFree'. On an ec2 instance with 2G memory, I saw: Karmic: 681616 Lucid: 552616 That lead me to suspect ureadahead. It turns out, that if I remove ureadahead from the instance, I can boot in 96M of memory under kvm. With ureadahead in the instance, I get OOM messages at 256M. One thing to note, is that this is a fresh first-boot of ec2 instance. ureadahead has never profiled before, and can't be expected to have. -- default uec-image requires at least 300 M of RAM to run - m1.small and c1.medium not needed by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/499520 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
