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Date:	Mon, 7 Aug 2006 13:29:26 -0700
From:	"Mark Knecht" <markknecht@...il.com>
To:	"Daniel Walker" <dwalker@...sta.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: Call Trace: 2.6.17-rt5: Call Trace: <ffffffff802500fd>{out_of_memory+55}

Hi all,
   Thanks Daniel. I've not seen this before on any kernels myself.
I'll keep an eye on it and see if it comes up again.

   I appreciate the info.

Cheers,
Mark

On 8/7/06, Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 08:19 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >    I've never seen this on 2.6.17-rt5. Up until today it had always
> > been quite stable. I was running MythTV at the time. Nothing out of
> > the ordinary.
>
> Those message are cause by the system running out of memory. I've see
> MythTV make the system run out of memory on non-RT kernels (must be a
> memory leak someplace). So I wouldn't think it related to any real time
> changes.
>
> >    Excuse my lack of experience here but after an event like this what
> > is the proper way to make sure the kernel is as stable as it can be?
> > Do I need to clean anything up? Reboot? Or is the cleanup all
> > automatic and everything is fine?
>
> The kernel will kill some running user space tasks to free memory. But
> the kernel should be fine after that.
>
> Daniel
>
>
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