Re: oom-killings, but I'm not out of memory!

[Alexander Nyberg]

> I'm running a 2.6.11 kernel.  I have 1 gig of RAM and 1 gig of swap.  Lately 
> when my RAM gets full, the oom-killer takes out either Mozilla or 
> Thunderbird (my two biggest memory hogs), even though my swap space is only 
> 20% full.  I still have ~800 MB of free swap space, so shouldn't the kernel 
> push Moz or T-bird into swap instead of oom-killing it?  At their maximum 
> memory-hogging capacity, neither Moz nor T-bird is ever using more than 200 MB.
>
> Jun 28 12:09:09 soma oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x80d2
> ...
> Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Free swap  = 781012kB
> Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Total swap = 987988kB
> Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Out of Memory: Killed process 30787 (thunderbird-bin).
> Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Out of Memory: Killed process 18112 (thunderbird-bin).
> Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Out of Memory: Killed process 18116 (thunderbird-bin).
> Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Out of Memory: Killed process 18117 (thunderbird-bin).
> Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Out of Memory: Killed process 18119 (thunderbird-bin).
> Jun 28 12:09:09 soma Out of Memory: Killed process 8857 (thunderbird-bin).
> 

You cut out the important part where it printed out memory usage
information at the time of the OOM, please post it

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