From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d28relay02.in.ibm.com (d28relay02.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.59]) by e28esmtp04.in.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m7QDFc5e014517 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:45:38 +0530 Received: from d28av05.in.ibm.com (d28av05.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.67]) by d28relay02.in.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.0) with ESMTP id m7QDFb5T1761512 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:45:38 +0530 Received: from d28av05.in.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d28av05.in.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m7QDFbYX029212 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:45:37 +0530 Message-ID: <48B401F8.9010703@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:45:36 +0530 From: Balbir Singh Reply-To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: oom-killer why ? References: <48B296C3.6030706@iplabs.de> <48B3E4CC.9060309@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <48B3F04B.9030308@iplabs.de> In-Reply-To: <48B3F04B.9030308@iplabs.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Marco Nietz Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Marco Nietz wrote: > Balbir Singh schrieb: > >>> DMA32 free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB >>> present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no >>> lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 880 17392 >> pages_scanned is 0 > > Is'nt this zone irrelevant for a 32bit Kernel ? > Doesn't matter, since you have 0 present pages. >>> Normal free:3664kB min:3756kB low:4692kB high:5632kB active:280kB >>> inactive:244kB present:901120kB pages_scanned:593 all_unreclaimable? yes >>> lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 132096 >> pages_scanned is 593 and all_unreclaimable is yes > > Reclaimable means, that the Pages are reusable for other Purposes, or not ? > It is set by a background routine that tries to reclaim pages (balance_pgdat()), to indicate that it was unable to reclaim any pages from the zone, even though it did a certain amount of work to do so. >>> HighMem free:5941820kB min:512kB low:18148kB high:35784kB >>> active:4408096kB inactive:5494404kB present:16908288kB pages_scanned:0 >>> all_unreclaimable? no >> pages_scanned is 0 > >> Do you have CONFIG_HIGHPTE set? I suspect you don't (I don't really know the >> debian etch configuration) > > No, it's not set in the running Debian Kernel. Looks like CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y would have helped allocate pages since you do have pages in HighMem available. -- Balbir -- 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: email@kvack.org