On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 04:30:57PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Dave Jones wrote: > > > we picked this.. > > > > [21623.066911] [ 588] 0 588 22206 1 2 0 0 dhclient > > > > over say.. > > > > [21623.116597] [ 7092] 1000 7092 1051124 31660 3 0 0 trinity-child3 > > > > What went wrong here ? > > > > And why does that score look so.. weird. > > > > It sounds like it's because pid 588 has uid=0 and the adjustment for root > processes is causing an overflow. I assume this fixes it? Still doesn't seem right.. eg.. [42309.542776] [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss cpu oom_adj oom_score_adj name .. [42309.553933] [ 500] 81 500 5435 1 4 -13 -900 dbus-daemon .. [42309.597531] [ 9054] 1000 9054 528677 14540 3 0 0 trinity-child3 .. [42309.643057] Out of memory: Kill process 500 (dbus-daemon) score 511952 or sacrifice child [42309.643620] Killed process 500 (dbus-daemon) total-vm:21740kB, anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:4kB and a slew of similar 'wrong process' death spiral kills follows.. Dave -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>