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From: "Nick Hennenfent (nhennefe)" <nhennefe@cisco.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: FW: process virtual size versus resident size versus swap space versus oom-killer
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 13:35:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2FE093E39DAE7D498A29AF6BE01F267B052B73AE@xmb-rtp-20c.amer.cisco.com> (raw)


 
I have an embedded system where the resident size of a process continues
to grow and grow
until a lot of pages have been swapped, then the oom-killer kicks in and
kills it.
 
How can I tell what processes or parts of processes are being swapped
out????
 
How can I tell what has triggered the oom-killer - is it an application
allocation or a kernel allocation???
 
How can I tell what part of a program is causing the resident set size
to grow????
 
The virtual size of the process is much larger than the resident size,
as I understand it, the resident size grows as pages become "active".
 
 
 
 
 
 

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