Re: OOM-Killer kills too much with 2.6.32.2

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Tue Jan 26 2010 - 08:57:21 EST


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:19 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro
<kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> (cc to lots related person)
>
>> On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:48:08 +0100, KOSAKI Motohiro
>> <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> since kernel 2.6.32.2 (also tried 2.6.32.3) I get a lot of oom-killer
>> >> kills when I do hard disk intensive tasks (mainly in VirtualBox which is
>> >> running Windows XP) and IMHO it kills processes even if I have a lot of
>> >> free memory.
>> >>
>> >> Is this a known bug? I have self compiled kernel so I can try patches.
>> >
>> > Can you please post your .config?
>
> Hi all,
>
> Strangely, all reproduce machine are x86_64 with Intel i915. but I don't
> have any solid evidence.

The same oops seems to appear in an unrelated "screen going blank" bug
report (it's the second to last oops):

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15015
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