Re: 2.6.10-ac12 + kernbench == oom-killer: (OSDL)

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Feb 18 2005 - 15:17:07 EST


On Gwe, 2005-02-18 at 16:55, Cliff White wrote:
> Okay, with just vm.overcommit=2, things are still bad:
> http://khack.osdl.org/stp/300854/logs/TestRunFailed.console.log.txt
>
> Suggestion for vm.overcommit_ratio ?
> Or should i repeat with later -ac ?

Thats showing up problems in the core code still. The OOM in this case
is because the kernel is deciding it is out of memory when it's merely
constipated with dirty pages for disk write by the look of it.

Alan
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