From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84A7C6B02A6 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:15:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by pvc30 with SMTP id 30so927878pvc.14 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:15:12 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100728135850.7A92.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <20100727200804.2F40.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100728135850.7A92.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> From: dave b Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:14:52 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: PROBLEM: oom killer and swap weirdness on 2.6.3* kernels Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: David Rientjes , Hugh Dickins , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On 28 July 2010 15:06, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: >> On 27 July 2010 21:14, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: >> >> On 27 July 2010 18:09, dave b wrote: >> >> > On 27 July 2010 16:09, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: >> >> >>> > Do you mean the issue will be gone if disabling intel graphics? >> >> >>> It may be a general issue or it could just be specific :) >> >> > >> >> > I will try with the latest ubuntu and report how that goes (that will >> >> > be using fairly new xorg etc.) it is likely to be hidden issue just >> >> > with the intel graphics driver. However, my concern is that it isn't - >> >> > and it is about how shared graphics memory is handled :) >> >> >> >> >> >> Ok my desktop still stalled and no oom killer was invoked when I added >> >> swap to a live-cd of 10.04 amd64. >> >> >> >> *Without* *swap* *on* - the oom killer was invoked - here is a copy of it. >> > >> > This stack seems similar following bug. can you please try to disable intel graphics >> > driver? >> > >> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14933 >> >> Ok I am not sure how to do that :) >> I could revert the patch and see if it 'fixes' this :) > > Oops, no, revert is not good action. the patch is correct. > probably my explanation was not clear. sorry. > > I did hope to disable 'driver' (i.e. using vga), not disable the patch. Oh you mean in xorg, I will also blacklist the module. Sure that patch might not it but in 2.6.26 the problem isn't there :) -- 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