Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Nov 2004 09:03:29 +0100 | From | Ralf Hildebrandt <> | Subject | Re: Out of memory, but no OOM Killer? (2.6.9-ac11) |
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* Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>:
> >I see. rsync requested a big chunk of memory, but failed due to the > >fragmentation of free memory? my "sar" output shows lots of free memory and > >lots of unused swap: > > > > Basically, yes. Well not *exactly* rsync - your network drivers. I guess > rsync is showing up in process context most often because that is the > process causing most of the network activity.
At that time, yes.
> Yep, it looks like fragmentation is indeed the problem here. See you have > a lot of memory that is able to be reclaimed, but the failing allocations > themselves can't reclaim any of it because they are happening from > interrupts. What they should be doing is telling `kswapd` to start freeing > memory for them - however this currently doesn't happen properly for > allocations which are order greater than 0. > > Fortunately that is usually not a big problem, but as you have seen, it > can be. Anyway, expect 2.6.10 to be better (ie. good enough), and 2.6.11 > should have even more complete fixes.
Aha.
> OK that should be fine. If you should upgrade to a 2.6.10 or later kernel, > put this value back to the default, and report further problems if they > occur.
I just set it "for now"
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