Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:10:04 +0200 | From | Jan-Frode Myklebust <> | Subject | OOM-killer going crazy. (was: Re: memory not released after using cdrecord/cdrdao) |
| |
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 09:30:38PM -0400, Ed Sweetman wrote: > > Indeed, i burned a smaller cd and got very similar results.
Same here.. After upgrading to 2.6.8-rc2 the OOM-killer is going crazy. It's particularly angry at the backup client 'dsmc' (from Tivoli Storage Manager). I'm monitoring its usage with 'top', and 'dsmc' is not using more than ~150MB in either size or RSS when the OOM-killer takes it down.
The 'dsmc'-process is reporting that it's processed 2,719,000 files, and transfered 164.34 MB when it gets killed. i.e. it's traversed a lot of files, but only read about 164 MB data, so it shouldn't have filled up any buffer cache...
The system still has lots of free memory (~900 MB), and also 2 GB of unused swap. Actually there's 0K used swap..??
I've tried turning on vm.overcommit_memory, but it had no effect. Also tried changing the swappiness both up to 90% and down to 10%, but it never uses any swap.. ???
BTW: I had no OOM-killer problems on 2.6.7.
-jf - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |