Re: Crazy load average & unkillable processes

[Nick Piggin]

Looks like you still have quite a lot of free memory left, so its
not that. Maybe you have runaway processes? Look in top. Although
if its only happening with test4, I guess its probably kernel
related. Maybe ACPI? Maybe your video card driver? Try booting with
acpi=off. Post a dmesg too. Thanks.

Nico Schottelius wrote:

> I am attaching /proc/meminfo,slapinfo,uptime from now.
> The system is f*** slow..
> And I am currently just able to write this, moving windows
> in X is more than painful!
>
> Nico
>
> Nick Piggin [Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 07:33:25PM +1000]:
>
> > Nico Schottelius wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Very interesting..
> > > with the test4 I experiene the same/similar problems on my laptop..
> > > all of sudden yesterday several programs died -> Out of Memory.
> > > I ran
> > > Xfree
> > > dhcpcd
> > > opera 
> > > several xterms (about 6)
> > > qmail
> > > named
> > >
> > > first opera was Out of Memory, then died the whole X system with all
> > > xterms and X beeing Out of Memory.
> > >
> > > MemTotal:       385600 kB
> > >
> > > which should be more than enough!
> > You might have a process with a memory leak. How much free memory do
> > you have before everything dies? How much swapping activity is going
> > on? What do /proc/meminfo and /proc/slabinfo say?

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