Hi, On Mon, 17.09.2007 at 20:04:24 -0400, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going to reassign this to linux-image. The basic problem seems to be > the loss of responsiveness, which is probably caused by excessive > amounts of large block size IO on the encrypted volume. There's a > possible issue with the OOM killer.
FWIW, today I also saw OOM killer in (broken?) action. Imho, OOM killer should only trigger if there's at least either no more RAM to work with, and note this in the syslog, or when swap is exhausted. My kern.log has this, with the time stamp and hostname removed: DMA: 465*4kB 17*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 5948kB DMA32: empty Normal: empty HighMem: empty Swap cache: add 2195725, delete 2046650, find 782418/975703, race 1+47 Free swap = 2489952kB Total swap = 4194296kB Free swap: 2489952kB 483649 pages of RAM 14999 reserved pages 70 pages shared 149071 pages swap cached Unfortunately, I can't make too much out of these numbers. Best, --Toni++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
