Re: OOM in 2.6.19-rc*

[Christian Kujau]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Can you test whether an older kernel (preferably the one that worked
> before) shows the same problem?

I could try 2.6.17...but currently I don't know how to reproduce the OOM 
condition - so I'd have to wait 24h until *something* happens and the 
OOM killer kicks in.

> This way you might know whether it's a kernel problem or a distribution
> problem.

I think I'm more interested as to why the OOM killer seems to kill 
innocent apps at random. I can imagine that it's not easy for the kernel 
to tell which userland-application is using up too much memory. Hm, 
egrep -r "OOM|ut of memory" Documentation/    does not reveal much :(

Thanks,
Christian.
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