Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:43:22 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: Out of memory and no killable processes: 2.6.22-2-686-bigmem |
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Nico Schottelius wrote: > Hello! > > We are running Debian with 2.6.22-2-686-bigmem on Dell Blade 1955 hardware > and get a Kernel Panic with oom + message that there are no processes > left to kill: > > http://home.schottelius.org/~nico/unix/linux/oom_no_killable-2.6.22-1.jpeg > > Anyone an idea, what's the cause for that? This error happened on two of > those machines, > > What I can see in our analysis done with munin is that the number of > open inodes and inode table size decreased within some days from 40k > to next to zero. Munin uses > > awk '{print "used.value " $1-$2 "\nmax.value " $1}' < /proc/sys/fs/inode-nr > > to log those value (happened on both machines). > > Thanks for any hint and CC as usual, please.
How much RAM is in these machines? If you're running tons of memory, it really is better to run a 64-bit kernel if possible. I believe there are some cases where low memory can be pretty easily exhausted on machines with lots of high memory.
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