Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:33:25 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: Crazy load average & unkillable processes |
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Nico Schottelius wrote:
>Very interesting.. >with the test4 I experiene the same/similar problems on my laptop.. >all of sudden yesterday several programs died -> Out of Memory. >I ran > Xfree > dhcpcd > opera > several xterms (about 6) > qmail > named > >first opera was Out of Memory, then died the whole X system with all >xterms and X beeing Out of Memory. > >MemTotal: 385600 kB > >which should be more than enough! >
You might have a process with a memory leak. How much free memory do you have before everything dies? How much swapping activity is going on? What do /proc/meminfo and /proc/slabinfo say?
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