Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Mar 2003 16:33:52 +0100 | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: VM / OOM troubles in 2.4.20-ck4 (-aa VM) |
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At 12:58 PM 3/4/2003 +0000, 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.
You sure your userland proggies aren't leaking like a sieve?
-Mike
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