Andrew Morton wrote: > Christian Kujau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>i was going to compile 2.6.11-rc5-bk4, to sort out the "bad" kernel. >>compiling went fine. ok, finished some email, ok, suddenly my swap was >>used up again, and no memory left - uh oh! OOM again, with 2.6.11-rc5-bk2! > > > Well if you ran out of swap then yes, the oom-killer will visit you. > > Why did you run out of swapspace?
hm, if i only knew. i don't know how long it took the other night to go from "normal" to "OOM". but today, with 2.6.11-rc5-bk2 (well, yesterday actually) i was working normally, and all of a sudden swap goes from 170MB used swap (normal) to OOM. i think it took a minute or so, but i just can't tell which application went nuts. today the first process that got killed was "ssh-agent", the other day it was mysqld. but even after this, it should've released some memory, right? but the oom-killer goes on and on and kills the next task. i'll monitor memory usage tonight and see what it gives. these "pppd" messages are suspicious though. thank you, Christian. -- BOFH excuse #135: You put the disk in upside down. - 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/
