Re: Kernel 2.4.18 and strange OOM Killer behaveness

From: Dieter Nützel (Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de)
Date: Fri Apr 26 2002 - 12:46:14 EST

Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:

> Apr 26 16:10:56 codeman kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 26038
> (mysqld).
> Apr 26 16:11:01 codeman kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 3914 (pico).
> Apr 26 16:11:01 codeman kernel: VM: killing process pico
> Apr 26 16:11:04 codeman kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 20471 (squid).
>
> So, you guess, apache, mysqld, squid and the causer pico are killed, but NO,
> ONLY, and i mean ONLY pico was killed, all the other Processes listed above
> are running fine, accepting connections, short: works fine!!
> And yes, its reproduceable !!
>
> The above is a kernel without rmap!

Try with -AA (splitted vm33), latest ist 2.4.19pre7aa2.
It works for "ages".

Regards,
        Dieter

BTW Have anyone a copy of these nice "test.c" for the OOM, handy? 

-- 
Dieter Nützel
Graduate Student, Computer Science

University of Hamburg
Department of Computer Science
@home: Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de
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