Re: diagnosing OOM issue

2010-04-16 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 03:40:51PM +0200, Oliver Falk wrote: > You should not run a Linux system without swap. If a process tries to > allocate memory and no more real memory is available and also no swap OOM > will start killing. > It's a workstation I guess? yes The point being that I'm *now

Re: diagnosing OOM issue

2010-04-16 Thread Oliver Falk
You should not run a Linux system without swap. If a process tries to allocate memory and no more real memory is available and also no swap OOM will start killing. It's a workstation I guess? -of Dave Mitchell schrieb: >I've recently upgraded my F11 system's RAM from 1Gb to 2Gb, and at the >

diagnosing OOM issue

2010-04-16 Thread Dave Mitchell
I've recently upgraded my F11 system's RAM from 1Gb to 2Gb, and at the same time removed the swap device from /etc/fstab. Since then I'm getting the OOM killer killing off random processes after a few days' use, even when memory usage is (apparently) low. Can anyone advise me what's causing this?