From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx138.postini.com [74.125.245.138]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E17F86B0037 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 05:34:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-ve0-f169.google.com with SMTP id 15so3202656vea.14 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 02:34:03 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Raymond Jennings Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 02:33:23 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: OOM triggered with plenty of memory free Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Hillf Danton Cc: Jonathan Woithe , David Rientjes , Linux-MM , LKML On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Hillf Danton wrote: >> Some system specifications: >> - CPU: i7 860 at 2.8 GHz >> - Mainboard: Advantech AIMB-780 >> - RAM: 4 GB >> - Kernel: 2.6.35.11 SMP, 32 bit (kernel.org kernel, no patches applied) > The highmem no longer holds memory with 64-bit kernel. I don't really think that's a valid reason to dismiss problems with 32-bit though, as I still use it myself. Anyway, to the parent poster, could you tell us more, such as how much ram you had left free? A printout of /proc/meminfo might help here. > -- > 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 -- 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