Re: OOM-killer too aggressive?

[Chris Largret <largret@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 18:22 -0600, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 12:56:10PM -0800, Chris Largret wrote:
> > $ readelf -S vmlinux
> > There are 52 section headers, starting at offset 0x2548488:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >   [49] .shstrtab         STRTAB           0000000000000000  02548212
> >        0000000000000273  0000000000000000           0     0     1
> >   [50] .symtab           SYMTAB           0000000000000000  02549188
> >        00000000000b3898  0000000000000018          51   20791     8
> >   [51] .strtab           STRTAB           0000000000000000  025fca20
> >        0000000000096692  0000000000000000           0     0     1
> 
> More than 40MB, that should partially explain it...

Ouch. I hadn't noticed that and will have to see about bringing that
down a little. It's the same size when compiling without SMP, and the
OOM Killer doesn't cause problems then. There is something else that is
causing these problems.

>From using ls on the *.o files, it appears (as expected) that most of
this is the built-in drivers. The pruning should be fun. :)

--
Chris Largret <http://daga.dyndns.org>

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