From: James Washer <washer@trlp.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Question about OOM-Killer
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:21:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050718122101.751125ef.washer@trlp.com> (raw)
I'm chasing down a system problem where the DMA memory (x86-64, god knows why it is using DMA memory) drops below the minimum, and the OOM-Killer is fired off.
It just strikes me odd that the OOM-Killer would be called at all for DMA memory. What's the chance of regaining DMA memory by killing user land processes?
I'll admit, I know very little about linux VM, so perhaps I'm missing how oom killing can be helpful here.
- jim
--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"aart@kvack.org"> aart@kvack.org </a>
next reply other threads:[~2005-07-18 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-18 19:21 James Washer [this message]
2005-07-18 19:36 ` James Washer
2005-07-23 13:00 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-07-25 19:11 ` James Washer
2005-07-25 12:27 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-07-25 22:41 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-07-25 15:46 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-07-26 0:35 ` James Washer
2005-07-25 17:10 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-07-26 13:29 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-07-26 15:17 ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-26 16:34 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-07-26 13:53 ` Andi Kleen
2023-05-31 8:42 Question about oom-killer Gou Hao
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20050718122101.751125ef.washer@trlp.com \
--to=washer@trlp.com \
--cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox