Re: lot of VM problem with 2.4.23

[Octave]

> one of my collegues had a server which occasionally crashed at night with
> mysql taking all the memory. I think it was with an old 2.4.18 kernel. He
> finally reinstalled all the machine and it never happened anymore. So
> eventhough it works for you with 2.4.22, perhaps 2.4.23 triggers a mysql
> bug which is fixed in more recent releases ?

Willy,
Hmm ... could be, but I don't think so. I use last mysql3 version and
I have this problem without mysql too.

For example on this box there is no mysql (Piv 2.4GHz/512Mo):
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
VM: killing process watchdog
__alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1f0/0)
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
VM: killing process watchdog

# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        514468     508416       6052          0      11608     205464
-/+ buffers/cache:     291344     223124
Swap:       265032      77524     187508

When I swithed more that 700 servers 10-15 days ago to 2.4.23, I saw that 
servers swaped less that with 2.4.22. So I believe VM was modified. Cool.
Great job. Now servers begin to crash :/ 

Octave

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