> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:32:41 +0100 Matthias Wolle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > my company is running several servers with kernel 2.6.23.12. This are Dual > Quad Core servers (CPU Intel) with 16GB RAM using a 32Bit kernel. > After some days nicely running the oom killer killed our processes. > Our research discovered that the free low memory was reduced to about 11MB. > We > found out that the decreasing of low memory is related to the count off > executed and ended programs. > > I could reproduce the same bug on a maschine with 2GB RAM without PAE (option > 4GB HIGHMEM). The following code reproduces the bug. > > #!/bin/sh > > while [ true ]; do > cat /proc/meminfo| grep LowFree > done > > Please run this script only on a test system. It reduces the low memory quite > fast (within minutes).
That would be very strange. > The latest available kernel 2.6.24-rc8 is also affected. > Can you please send the full dmesg output from one such oom-killing event? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
