On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:29 +0100, Martin MOKREJ(C) wrote:
> > Can you please try 2.6.10-rc2-mm2 + the patch I posted yesterday night ?
> > It will still kill RNAsubopt, but it should not longer touch the xterm,
> > which runs vmstat.
> 
> No, it doesn't help at all! See attached file.

Strange. I have no idea what's going on there.  

> oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd2
> Free pages:        3916kB (112kB HighMem)
> Out of Memory: Killed process 6612 (RNAsubopt).
> Out of Memory: Killed process 6603 (bash).

This one is expected, but the next one is complete nonsense. After
killing RNAsubopt and bash the number of free pages must be greater than
before. 

> oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2
> Free pages:        3916kB (112kB HighMem)
> Out of Memory: Killed process 6598 (FvwmPager).
> Out of Memory: Killed process 6599 (xterm).
> Out of Memory: Killed process 6606 (xterm).
> Out of Memory: Killed process 6564 (fvwm2).

Damn, removing the timer/counter stuff in there was not the brightest
idea. The process needs some time to be recycled.

I moved the ugly timer counter check back in. Could you please try
again ?

It should only kill RNAsubopt and bash and touch nothing else.

tglx