Re: Out of Memory: Killed process 16498 (java).

[Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>]

Andy Chittenden wrote:

> > Andy, what are
> > you running that uses SG_IO - cd ripping, burning, something else?
> >    
>
> I'm sorry but I haven't a clue what uses SG_IO! All I did was boot up a
> debian unstable machine on my amd64 machine that uses 2.6.15. I log in
> via gdm and get a gnome session so I guess that's using nautilus (I've
> seen that killed in the past). I use the sawfish window manager and
> start up 7 rxvt windows and that java app I mentioned (terminator) (I
> suspect that's a red herring as other processes have been killed).
>
>  
for starters you should probably change build_zonelists so that the DMA 
zone is
not included in any of the zone lists except the DMA.  This will prevent 
__alloc_pages()
from exhausting the hignmem/normal zones then falling into the DMA zone 
and exhausting
that with non-reclamable memory like the slabcache.

--- linux-2.6.9/mm/page_alloc.c.orig
+++ linux-2.6.9/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1170,6 +1170,9 @@ static int __init build_zonelists_node(p
               zone = pgdat->node_zones + ZONE_NORMAL;
               if (zone->present_pages)
                       zonelist->zones[j++] = zone;
+#if defined(CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G) || defined(CONFIG_X86_64)
+               break;
+#endif
       case ZONE_DMA:
               zone = pgdat->node_zones + ZONE_DMA;
               if (zone->present_pages)
~



-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/