From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from p6.trlp.com (p6.trlp.com [192.168.1.66]) by gw.trlp.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id j6IJKcL12527 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:20:38 -0700 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:21:01 -0700 From: James Washer Subject: Question about OOM-Killer Message-Id: <20050718122101.751125ef.washer@trlp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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: aart@kvack.org