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Message-ID: <4720F4C9.9000908@simon.arlott.org.uk> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:55:53 +0100 From: Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu> To: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net> CC: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Linux machines dieing in swap storms On 25/10/07 16:20, Richard Purdie wrote: > This isn't a new problem. My mail server used to be running an ancient > 2.6.12 kernel and I upgraded it to 2.6.22.X in an effort to solve this > problem which no change. My desktop shows exactly the same kind of OOM > swap storm behaviour (2.6.20 based). > > I realise that tuning the OOM killer is a really tricky problem but > something needs improving as the current user experience is broken. > > I'm seriously tempted to add a "kill the process using the most memory" > key combination into SysRq which might let me save the desktop but won't > help with my remote server. I could also just disable swap I guess. I have no swap. If I accidentally start The GIMP and load a very large image, everything just freezes and I have to reboot - the OOM killer doesn't appear to care. -- Simon Arlott - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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