Re: 2.2.15pre7 oops, 2.2.14aa6 not OK !

From: Rik van Riel (riel@nl.linux.org)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2000 - 20:46:56 EST

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Igor Mozetic wrote:

> > 2.2.14aa6 survived close to VM limits for about a week.
>
> I take it back - 2.2.14aa6 is _not_ OK. Tonight, when I run an I/O intensive
> (not VM intensive!) job, the load increased to 6 and I found the following in kern.log:
>
> Feb 15 22:15:13 badija kernel: VM: killing process xlock
> Feb 15 22:15:16 badija kernel: VM: killing process tcsh
> Feb 15 22:15:26 badija kernel: VM: killing process rpc.mountd
> Feb 15 22:15:31 badija kernel: VM: terminating process XF86_SVGA
> Feb 15 22:15:31 badija kernel: VM: killing process xload

Could you please try 2.2.15pre7 + my OOM patch?

        http://www.surriel.com/patches/2.2.15pre7oom

If you are unable to make it behave badly, the choice
of which OOM mechanism to include in the next 2.2 kernel
will be quite a bit easier :)

thanks,

Rik 

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