Re: OOM killer invoked on 2.6.24.4

[Bart Van Assche]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Marco Barbero <marco.barbero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> One or more processes on your system used too much memory. Dumping the
>> output of the following command periodically (e.g. every 10 minutes)
>> to a file will tell you which process is using too much memory:
>
>> { ps aux | head -n 1; ps aux | sort -n +4 | tail -n 10; }
>
> I'll do it.  Have to say that this box had an uptime of 1 month and
> never show issues. Also oom was invoked in the night when load is
> minimum.
> Could be related to slab and the quicklist leak?

Are you running the kernel in 32-bit mode ? Wouldn't it be better to
run a 64 bit kernel with 4 GB RAM ?

Bart.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/