Re: slow OOM killing with 2.6.9?

[Chris Friesen]

Chris Ross wrote:
> 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?

Hmm...downloaded 2.6.9, patched to 2.6.10-rc2, patched to 2.6.10-rc2-mm4.  Tried 
building and got the following error:

[cfriesen@hsdbsk204-83-218-112 linux-2.6.10-rc2-mm4]$ make
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
make[1]: `arch/ppc/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
  CHK     usr/initramfs_list
  GEN     .version
  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
  UPD     include/linux/compile.h
  CC      init/version.o
  LD      init/built-in.o
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
arch/ppc/mm/built-in.o(.init.text+0x5f4): In function `paging_init':
: undefined reference to `pgd_offset_is_obsolete'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

Any ideas?

Chris
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