Re: Crazy load average & unkillable processes

[Nick Piggin]

Nico Schottelius wrote:

> Very interesting..
> with the test4 I experiene the same/similar problems on my laptop..
> all of sudden yesterday several programs died -> Out of Memory.
> I ran
>   Xfree
>   dhcpcd
>   opera 
>   several xterms (about 6)
>   qmail
>   named
>
> first opera was Out of Memory, then died the whole X system with all
> xterms and X beeing Out of Memory.
>
> MemTotal:       385600 kB
>
> which should be more than enough!

You might have a process with a memory leak. How much free memory do
you have before everything dies? How much swapping activity is going
on? What do /proc/meminfo and /proc/slabinfo say?


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