Re: 2.6.10-ac12 + kernbench == oom-killer: (OSDL)

[Andries Brouwer]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:57:07PM -0800, cliff white wrote:

> Running 2.6.10-ac10 on the STP 1-CPU machines, we don't seem to be able to complete
> a kernbench run without hitting the OOM-killer. ( kernbench is multiple kernel compiles,
> of course ) Machine is 800 mhz PIII with 1GB memory. We reduce memory for some of the runs.
> 
> Typical results:
> 
> Out of Memory: Killed process 14970 (cc1).
> -------------------------
> It looks like some oom-related stuff went into -ac10, will try retest with 
> -ac9 and -ac10, see what happens. Lemme know if we can do more

I am always curious to hear how things are when you set
/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory to 2
(and possibly /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio to something
appropriate).

Andries

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