linux-kernel - Re: oom kill oddness.

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Date:	Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:57:45 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: oom kill oddness.

Hi,

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Kernel versions please, guys.  There have been a lot of oom-killer changes
> post-2.6.18.

Last I tested this was with 2.6.18.
The latest changes to vmscan.c should help...

> > If someone wants to play with the problem, the example program below 
> > triggers the problem relatively easily (booting with only little ram 
> > helps), it starts a number of readers, which should touch a bit more 
> > memory than is available and a few writers, which occasionally allocate 
> > memory.
> > 
> 
> How much ram, how much swap?

I tested it with 32MB and 64MB and plenty of swap.

bye, Roman
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