Re: lot of VM problem with 2.4.23

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 01:30:36PM +0100, Octave wrote:
> > Hi Octave,
> > 
> > What do you mean with "server is down" ? The OOM killer killed an
> > application ? What were the messages?
> > 
> > Under out of memory, 2.4.22 should also kill a process, but you say it
> > doesnt.
> 
> Marcelo,
> 
> All I have with 
> - 2.4.24-pre1 is
> # echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/vm_gfp_debug        
> # for i in `seq 1 100`; do ./full.pl &  done
> [1] 849
> [2] 850
> [...]                                                                                                 
> # tail -f /var/log/messages                                                                                                                    
> [...]
> 
> SOFTDOG: Initiating system reboot.

your softdog is too strict for the workload you're running. You can't
pretend a low latency scheduling behaviour with hundres oom. what you
see is perfectly normal.
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