Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Sep 2003 13:09:28 +0200 | From | Roland Bless <> | Subject | Re: Fix for wrong OOM killer trigger? |
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 09:25:44PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > can you try with 2.4.22aa1? the oom killer there will only work on tasks > that are allocating memory, not on idle daemons, so the probability of > killing rsync first should be higher. stock SuSE 8.1 kernel should do > the same too.
This will only help to avoid not shooting important daemons. The real cause, however, seems to be that the filesystem cache memory is not properly re-used when it should, or, that it tries to allocate a huge amount memory. The programs themselves do not allocate much memory! It must be the system, because I also ran programs with memory restrictions by ulimit. The programs are definitely not allocating the memory, and, 4GB RAM are really enough for a simple file server like ours.
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