not sure if there is any reports of this or not, basically using gitk on my macbookpro2,2 makes the system extremely slow and unusable (after a while can finally use the system) in dmesg I am seeing this: [ 6089.363045] NetworkManager invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x84d0, order=0, oom_adj=0, oom_score_adj=0 [ 6089.363050] Pid: 2107, comm: NetworkManager Not tainted 2.6.38-rc5-00101-gebad2c2 #2 [ 6089.363052] Call Trace: [ 6089.363062] [<ffffffff810c563c>] ? T.547+0x6a/0x180 [ 6089.363066] [<ffffffff810c5799>] ? T.544+0x47/0x24c [ 6089.363070] [<ffffffff810c5beb>] ? out_of_memory+0x24d/0x2f8 [ 6089.363074] [<ffffffff810c9142>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x55c/0x696 [ 6089.363079] [<ffffffff810dc985>] ? handle_pte_fault+0x2cd/0x73f [ 6089.363084] [<ffffffff8104e522>] ? pte_alloc_one+0x1e/0x3c [ 6089.363088] [<ffffffff810c8406>] ? __free_pages+0x1b/0x24 [ 6089.363091] [<ffffffff810ddfc1>] ? __pte_alloc+0x1d/0xcd [ 6089.363094] [<ffffffff810de185>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x114/0x164 [ 6089.363099] [<ffffffff8144973d>] ? do_page_fault+0x3dc/0x401 [ 6089.363104] [<ffffffff81112eef>] ? mntput_no_expire+0x8d/0x13f [ 6089.363108] [<ffffffff81112fc2>] ? mntput+0x21/0x23 [ 6089.363112] [<ffffffff810fb8dc>] ? fput+0x20e/0x21d [ 6089.363116] [<ffffffff81446a25>] ? page_fault+0x25/0x30 [ 6089.363118] Mem-Info: [ 6089.363120] DMA per-cpu: [ 6089.363123] CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 [ 6089.363125] CPU 1: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 [ 6089.363127] DMA32 per-cpu: [ 6089.363129] CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 61 [ 6089.363131] CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 184 [ 6089.363137] active_anon:109412 inactive_anon:109516 isolated_anon:0 [ 6089.363138] active_file:305 inactive_file:345 isolated_file:0 [ 6089.363139] unevictable:5 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 [ 6089.363140] free:1985 slab_reclaimable:2193 slab_unreclaimable:22201 [ 6089.363141] mapped:451 shmem:130 pagetables:2902 bounce:0 [ 6089.363148] DMA free:3980kB min:60kB low:72kB high:88kB active_anon:5728kB inactive_anon:5892kB active_file:64kB inactive_file:156kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:15684kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:88kB shmem:0kB slab_reclaimable:16kB slab_unreclaimable:40kB kernel_stack:8kB pagetables:24kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:331 all_unreclaimable? yes [ 6089.363154] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 978 978 978 [ 6089.363164] DMA32 free:3960kB min:3972kB low:4964kB high:5956kB active_anon:431920kB inactive_anon:432172kB active_file:1156kB inactive_file:1224kB unevictable:20kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:1002436kB mlocked:20kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:1716kB shmem:520kB slab_reclaimable:8756kB slab_unreclaimable:88764kB kernel_stack:1704kB pagetables:11584kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:3694 all_unreclaimable? yes [ 6089.363169] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 [ 6089.363174] DMA: 3*4kB 2*8kB 3*16kB 2*32kB 2*64kB 1*128kB 2*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3980kB [ 6089.363184] DMA32: 593*4kB 5*8kB 2*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 4012kB [ 6089.363193] 4369 total pagecache pages [ 6089.363195] 3566 pages in swap cache [ 6089.363198] Swap cache stats: add 107816, delete 104250, find 2345/3361 [ 6089.363200] Free swap = 0kB [ 6089.363201] Total swap = 390620kB [ 6089.367161] 258163 pages RAM [ 6089.367164] 6164 pages reserved [ 6089.367165] 2023 pages shared [ 6089.367167] 248975 pages non-shared [ 6089.367169] [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss cpu oom_adj oom_score_adj name [ 6089.367181] [ 1111] 0 1111 4188 0 1 -17 -1000 udevd [ 6089.367186] [ 1944] 0 1944 60148 1 1 0 0 gdm-binary [ 6089.367190] [ 1963] 0 1963 37584 9 0 0 0 nscd [ 6089.367195] [ 1979] 0 1979 30571 90 0 0 0 rsyslogd [ 6089.367199] [ 1991] 0 1991 1015 0 1 0 0 acpid [ 6089.367203] [ 2030] 0 2030 68036 1 0 0 0 gdm-binary [ 6089.367208] [ 2034] 0 2034 60586 953 1 0 0 X [ 6089.367212] [ 2052] 1000 2052 8162 213 1 0 0 dbus-daemon [ 6089.367216] [ 2061] 0 2061 5129 1 1 0 0 bluetoothd [ 6089.367221] [ 2081] 0 2081 8289 96 0 0 0 pommed [ 6089.367225] [ 2094] 0 2094 4758 0 1 0 0 saslauthd [ 6089.367230] [ 2096] 0 2096 4758 0 1 0 0 saslauthd [ 6089.367234] [ 2097] 0 2097 4758 0 1 0 0 saslauthd [ 6089.367238] [ 2098] 0 2098 4758 0 1 0 0 saslauthd [ 6089.367242] [ 2099] 0 2099 4758 0 1 0 0 saslauthd [ 6089.367246] [ 2107] 0 2107 36073 227 0 0 0 NetworkManager [ 6089.367251] [ 2117] 0 2117 29681 1 1 0 0 polkitd [ 6089.367255] [ 2282] 0 2282 4881 5 0 0 0 fcron [ 6089.367259] [ 2284] 0 2284 1016 1 1 0 0 agetty [ 6089.367263] [ 2285] 0 2285 1016 1 1 0 0 agetty [ 6089.367267] [ 2286] 0 2286 1016 1 0 0 0 agetty [ 6089.367271] [ 2287] 0 2287 1016 1 1 0 0 agetty [ 6089.367275] [ 2288] 0 2288 1016 1 0 0 0 agetty [ 6089.367279] [ 2289] 0 2289 1016 1 0 0 0 agetty [ 6089.367284] [ 2302] 0 2302 4752 81 0 0 0 wpa_supplicant [ 6089.367288] [ 2311] 0 2311 4187 1 1 -17 -1000 udevd [ 6089.367292] [ 2312] 0 2312 4187 1 1 -17 -1000 udevd [ 6089.367297] [ 2331] 1000 2331 15192 3 1 0 0 gnome-keyring-d [ 6089.367302] [ 2335] 0 2335 30630 111 0 0 0 console-kit-dae [ 6089.367306] [ 2400] 1000 2400 5587 1 1 0 0 ck-launch-sessi [ 6089.367310] [ 2421] 1000 2421 6620 0 1 0 0 dbus-launch [ 6089.367315] [ 2422] 1000 2422 8130 127 1 0 0 dbus-daemon [ 6089.367319] [ 2428] 1000 2428 5143 10 0 0 0 ssh-agent [ 6089.367323] [ 2433] 1000 2433 39977 126 0 0 0 fluxbox [ 6089.367327] [ 2435] 1000 2435 26496 0 0 0 0 sh [ 6089.367332] [ 2436] 1000 2436 88159 332 0 0 0 gnome-power-man [ 6089.367336] [ 2438] 1000 2438 87739 489 1 0 0 nm-applet [ 6089.367340] [ 2439] 1000 2439 62885 1 1 0 0 bluetooth-apple [ 6089.367344] [ 2440] 1000 2440 60223 1 0 0 0 volumeicon [ 6089.367349] [ 2441] 1000 2441 102547 228 0 0 0 nautilus [ 6089.367353] [ 2443] 1000 2443 37483 1 0 0 0 bonobo-activati [ 6089.367358] [ 2444] 1000 2444 64510 1 1 0 0 gdu-notificatio [ 6089.367362] [ 2445] 1000 2445 58787 1 1 0 0 gpomme [ 6089.367366] [ 2452] 1000 2452 34508 184 0 0 0 gconfd-2 [ 6089.367370] [ 2485] 1000 2485 57853 176 0 0 0 tint2 [ 6089.367374] [ 2487] 0 2487 29193 39 0 0 0 udisks-daemon [ 6089.367379] [ 2491] 0 2491 10659 41 0 0 0 udisks-daemon [ 6089.367383] [ 2495] 1000 2495 67536 72 0 0 0 notify-osd [ 6089.367387] [ 2498] 0 2498 30367 221 0 0 0 upowerd [ 6089.367391] [ 2501] 1000 2501 80849 113 0 0 0 gnome-screensav [ 6089.367396] [ 2515] 1000 2515 35044 1 1 0 0 gnome-keyring-d [ 6089.367400] [ 2549] 1000 2549 37880 74 0 0 0 xterm [ 6089.367404] [ 2550] 1000 2550 26617 1 1 0 0 bash [ 6089.367408] [ 2576] 0 2576 3140 1 0 0 0 dhclient [ 6089.367412] [ 2584] 1000 2584 70265 420 0 0 0 mplayer [ 6089.367417] [ 2589] 1000 2589 70068 130 1 0 0 mplayer [ 6089.367421] [ 2590] 1000 2590 103253 723 0 0 0 pidgin [ 6089.367426] [ 2592] 1000 2592 39233 46 0 0 0 xterm [ 6089.367430] [ 2593] 1000 2593 26616 1 1 0 0 bash [ 6089.367435] [ 2717] 1000 2717 326078 204267 0 0 0 wish [ 6089.367439] [ 2729] 1000 2729 141207 7349 0 0 0 git [ 6089.367444] Out of memory: Kill process 2717 (wish) score 802 or sacrifice child maybe I need to get a more updated system with more memory or something... full dmesg is here: http://fpaste.org/6yDn/ -- Justin P. 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