Re: PROBLEM: oom killer and swap weirdness on 2.6.3* kernels

From: dave b
Date: Tue Jul 27 2010 - 07:26:42 EST


On 27 July 2010 21:14, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 27 July 2010 18:09, dave b <db.pub.mail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On 27 July 2010 16:09, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>> > Do you mean the issue will be gone if disabling intel graphics?
>> >>> It may be a general issue or it could just be specific :)
>> >
>> > I will try with the latest ubuntu and report how that goes (that will
>> > be using fairly new xorg etc.) it is likely to be hidden issue just
>> > with the intel graphics driver. However, my concern is that it isn't -
>> > and it is about how shared graphics memory is handled :)
>>
>>
>> Ok my desktop still stalled and no oom killer was invoked when I added
>> swap to a live-cd of 10.04 amd64.
>>
>> *Without* *swap* *on* - the oom killer was invoked - here is a copy of it.
>
> This stack seems similar following bug. can you please try to disable intel graphics
> driver?
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14933

Ok I am not sure how to do that :)
I could revert the patch and see if it 'fixes' this :)
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