Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: VM / OOM troubles in 2.4.20-ck4 (-aa VM) | Date | Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:27:33 +1100 |
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On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 11:58 pm, Alastair Stevens wrote: > 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? ;-)
My first guess would be wine. There are all sorts of leaks in that.
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.
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