Re: VM Problems in 2.6.7 (Too active OOM Killer)

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 07:23:44PM -0700, Peter Zaitsev wrote:
> To be honest I was truly surprised seeing OOM killer killing MySQL
> without any good reason during highly IO intensive test:
> Out of Memory: Killed process 19301 (mysqld).
> Out of Memory: Killed process 19302 (mysqld).
> Out of Memory: Killed process 19303 (mysqld).
> Out of Memory: Killed process 19304 (mysqld).
> Out of Memory: Killed process 19305 (mysqld).
> Out of Memory: Killed process 19306 (mysqld).
> Out of Memory: Killed process 19309 (mysqld).
> Out of Memory: Killed process 19310 (mysqld).
> Out of Memory: Killed process 19311 (mysqld).
> Out of Memory: Killed process 19312 (mysqld).
> Out of Memory: Killed process 19737 (mysqld).
> Out of Memory: Killed process 19739 (mysqld).
> Out of Memory: Killed process 19821 (mysqld).
> This box has 4G memory and running without swap (what I would need it
> for If I can only use up to 3GB address space in the application anyway)

Is this a regression from earlier 2.6 versions? Do you have an isolated
testcase (obviously I should be able to install mysql easily) I can use
to trigger this?


-- wli
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