Re: help interpreting oom-killer output

[Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>]

Christopher Friesen wrote:
> I'm running a modified 2.6.10 on an x86 uniprocessor system.  I keep 
> having processes killed by the oom killer at the same place while 
> running LTP.  The system has gigs of memory, so I find this kind of odd.
> Could someone help me interpret the oom-killer output?  The first log 
> looks like this.
Looks like you were running out of ZONE_NORMAL memory (below 896MB). 
There is lots of high memory available but the allocation could not be 
satisfied from there.
I would try a newer kernel..

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