From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C55D6B01BB for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 23:45:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: by qyk28 with SMTP id 28so11052913qyk.26 for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 20:45:43 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: dave b Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 13:45:23 +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: Hugh Dickins Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, KOSAKI Motohiro List-ID: That was just a simple test case with dd. That test case might be invalid - but it is trying to trigger out of memory - doing this any other way still causes the problem. I note that playing with some bios settings I was actually able to trigger what appeared to be graphics corruption issues when I launched kde applications ... nothing shows up in dmesg so this might just be a conflict between xorg and the kernel with those bios settings... Anyway, This is no longer a 'problem' for me since I disabled overcommit and altered the values for dirty_ratio and dirty_background_ratio - and I cannot trigger it. -- 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