On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:54:50AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
I've got loads of messages like this:
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Apr 27 15:31:22 lakshmi kernel: Node 0 DMA free:8036kB min:28kB low:32kB
high:40kB active:2624kB inactive:0kB present:10512kB pages_scanned:397855
all_unreclaimable? yes
Apr 27 15:31:22 lakshmi kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2003 2003 2003
Apr 27 15:31:22 lakshmi kernel: Node 0 DMA32 free:5676kB min:5708kB
low:7132kB high:8560kB active:952096kB inactive:990404kB present:2051184kB
pages_scanned:5302627 all_unreclaimable? yes
Apr 27 15:31:22 lakshmi kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
Apr 27 15:31:22 lakshmi kernel: Node 0 DMA: 1*4kB 2*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB
0*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 1*4096kB = 8036kB
Apr 27 15:31:22 lakshmi kernel: Node 0 DMA32: 1*4kB 15*8kB 7*16kB 4*32kB
1*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 1*4096kB = 5676kB
Apr 27 15:31:22 lakshmi kernel: Swap cache: add 1268676, delete 1268676,
find 941701/1065348, race 0+116
Apr 27 15:31:22 lakshmi kernel: Free swap = 0kB
Apr 27 15:31:22 lakshmi kernel: Total swap = 1020088kB
Apr 27 15:31:22 lakshmi kernel: Free swap: 0kB
Apr 27 15:31:22 lakshmi kernel: 524000 pages of RAM
Apr 27 15:31:22 lakshmi kernel: 10614 reserved pages
Apr 27 15:31:22 lakshmi kernel: 2369 pages shared
Apr 27 15:31:22 lakshmi kernel: 0 pages swap cached
Apr 27 15:31:22 lakshmi kernel: rklogd invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xa01d2,
order=0, oomkilladj=0
By the looks of things, this is just a case where you filled up RAM,
and have no more swap available. There's really not much the kernel can do here.
Either add more swap, or find the app that's causing you to eat so
much memory, and see if you can somehow convince it to use less.
(The latter is probably a better bet, if something is eating up all ram/swap,
giving it more will likely just make it consume even more)
Dave
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