Re: slow OOM killing with 2.6.9?

[Chris Ross]

Chris Friesen escreveu:
> I've got a ppc box with 2GB of ram, running 2.6.9.
>
> If I run a few instances of memory chewing programs, eventually the 
> OOM-killer kicks in.  At that point, the machine locks up for about 10 
> seconds while deciding what to kill.

OOM killing is known to be broken in 2.6.9, specifically it kills things 
even when the machine isn't out of memeory and/or kills the "wrong" 
things when it is. See threads assim for more details.

The OOM Killer is working properly again in 2.6.10-rc2-mm4. Could you 
try that kernel and report whether it fixed your problems too?

Regards,
Chris R.
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