Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:17:11 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: Crazy load average & unkillable processes |
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Looks like you still have quite a lot of free memory left, so its not that. Maybe you have runaway processes? Look in top. Although if its only happening with test4, I guess its probably kernel related. Maybe ACPI? Maybe your video card driver? Try booting with acpi=off. Post a dmesg too. Thanks.
Nico Schottelius wrote:
>I am attaching /proc/meminfo,slapinfo,uptime from now. >The system is f*** slow.. >And I am currently just able to write this, moving windows >in X is more than painful! > >Nico > >Nick Piggin [Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 07:33:25PM +1000]: > >>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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