oom killing

From: ADAM Sulmicki (adam@cfar.umd.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 27 2000 - 10:22:41 EST


        Sigh,
        I was hoping it would never make to kernel, and if it did, it
        would never be enable by default. But it seems I was wrong on both
        accounts :(

        Is there some sane (and easy) way to stop this crazed thing from
        killing my programs? if I need to kill something I can do this
        myself. I don't need to have it kill my X (it did to me previous
        time), and other stuff (hint: it is always netscape, not the
        processes it kills)... I have always running top , and some spare
        xterm so I can use it to kill in oom situations..

Feb 4 11:03:55 pepsi kernel: VM: killing process X

[... this is for today]
VM: killing process sendmail
VM: killing process klogd
VM: killing process klogd
VM: killing process klogd
VM: killing process klogd
VM: killing process klogd
VM: killing process klogd
VM: killing process klogd
VM: killing process emacs
VM: killing process klogd

and while I'm sending this email I can attach this debug info on elevator
as well. Perhaps someone will find it usefull.

__elevator_merge: req latency 3989 req latency 3977
__elevator_merge: req latency 3878 req latency 3870
__elevator_merge: req latency 4061 req latency 4046
__elevator_merge: req latency 4022 req latency 4016
__elevator_merge: req latency 4026 req latency 4024
__elevator_merge: req latency 4036 req latency 4032
__elevator_merge: req latency 4009 req latency 4008
__elevator_merge: req latency 4037 req latency 4024
__elevator_merge: req latency 4027 req latency 4021
__elevator_merge: req latency 3999 req latency 3993
__elevator_merge: req latency 4018 req latency 4008
__elevator_merge: req latency 4048 req latency 4045
__elevator_merge: req latency 4031 req latency 4029
__elevator_merge: req latency 4042 req latency 4035
__elevator_merge: req latency 4042 req latency 4036
__elevator_merge: req latency 4036 req latency 4027
__elevator_merge: req latency 4000 req latency 3994
__elevator_merge: req latency 4064 req latency 4063
__elevator_merge: req latency 4047 req latency 4046
__elevator_merge: req latency 4021 req latency 4015
__elevator_merge: req latency 4066 req latency 4062
__elevator_merge: req latency 4055 req latency 4045
__elevator_merge: req latency 4023 req latency 4018
__elevator_merge: req latency 39 req latency 37
__elevator_merge: req latency 45 req latency 38
__elevator_merge: req latency 29 req latency 27

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