Re: Can't make use of swap memory in 2.6.7-bk19

From: Peter Osterlund
Date: Wed Jul 14 2004 - 07:57:31 EST


William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >> Probably not what will get merged, but does the following brutal hack
> >> do anything for you?
>
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 12:39:18PM +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> > Doesn't help. I added some printk's to your patch and got this:
>
> Brilliant, about zero dirty. Okay, I'm desperate. Could you try running
> this and see what it spews when the OOM kill happens?

Out of memory: pid 2655, comm xterm , gfp 0x466, order 0
DMA per-cpu:
cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
Normal per-cpu:
cpu 0 hot: low 28, high 84, batch 14
cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 28, batch 14
HighMem per-cpu: empty

Free pages: 1820kB (0kB HighMem)
Active:754 inactive:56177 dirty:0 writeback:3427 unstable:0 free:455 slab:2880 mapped:890 pagetables:384
DMA free:884kB min:28kB low:56kB high:84kB active:24kB inactive:11124kB present:16384kB
protections[]: 14 252 252
Normal free:936kB min:476kB low:952kB high:1428kB active:2992kB inactive:213584kB present:245248kB
protections[]: 0 238 238
HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:256kB high:384kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB
protections[]: 0 0 0
DMA: 1*4kB 0*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 884kB
Normal: 0*4kB 1*8kB 0*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 936kB
HighMem: empty
Swap cache: add 57227, delete 1309, find 331/331, race 0+0
[<c0131d69>] out_of_memory+0xb2/0x105
[<c013a0bd>] try_to_free_pages+0x143/0x190
[<c0132bae>] __alloc_pages+0x1c3/0x347
[<c013595b>] do_page_cache_readahead+0x13b/0x197
[<c012fb50>] filemap_nopage+0x2d8/0x371
[<c013cfe9>] do_no_page+0xb7/0x30f
[<c013d431>] handle_mm_fault+0xd6/0x171
[<c0111076>] do_page_fault+0x346/0x548
[<c01d5868>] __copy_to_user_ll+0x48/0x6c
[<c015c7c3>] sys_select+0x228/0x4b0
[<c0110d30>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x548
[<c01040a1>] error_code+0x2d/0x38
Out of Memory: Killed process 2666 (memalloc2).

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Peter Osterlund - petero2@xxxxxxxxx
http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340
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