Hi,
not sure where this one belongs, its not really application but also not install/boot/login, but here goes…
Sunday aug 07 I upgraded to kernel-desktop-2.6.37.6-0.7.1, monday aug 08 I got my 1st ever oom_killer, which eventually send me back to the login prompt but even after logging in KDE was just not right, reboot was needed.
Now I am not sure if the oom_killer and the kernel update are linked or not, but have not had this issue before so I am thinking it might. I have not yet gone back to a previous version but I have been checking /var/log/messages and am having a hard time to fully understand the oom_killer dump. My system has 6GB and 2GB swap but for the life of me I can’t get the oom_killer log of all the processes up to 6GB, also swap is still not in use when this happens if I read the logs correctly:
Aug 16 20:21:09 linuxb1 kernel: [13006.654904] 169824 total pagecache pages
Aug 16 20:21:09 linuxb1 kernel: [13006.654906] 0 pages in swap cache
Aug 16 20:21:09 linuxb1 kernel: [13006.654908] Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0
Aug 16 20:21:09 linuxb1 kernel: [13006.654911] Free swap = 2104476kB
Aug 16 20:21:09 linuxb1 kernel: [13006.654913] Total swap = 2104476kB
Aug 16 20:21:09 linuxb1 kernel: [13006.682135] 1834992 pages RAM
Aug 16 20:21:09 linuxb1 kernel: [13006.682137] 1609218 pages HighMem
Aug 16 20:21:09 linuxb1 kernel: [13006.682138] 306061 pages reserved
Aug 16 20:21:09 linuxb1 kernel: [13006.682139] 307003 pages shared
Aug 16 20:21:09 linuxb1 kernel: [13006.682140] 489941 pages non-shared
I hat to cut last nights log in 2:
oom_killer part 1 - Pastebin.com
oom_killer part 2 - Pastebin.com
Any help like how to read the oom_killer dump is appreciated, I would love to be able to reproduce it, but seems random, and will switch back a kernel version if I can’t solve it to see if that helps or not.
-Xil