On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > Is it highmem-related? Can you try it with mem=256M? > > > > Bad idea, the kernel crashes & burns when I use mem=256, I had to boot > > 2.6.20-rc5-6 single to get back into my machine, very nasty. Remember I > > use an onboard graphics controller that has 128MB of RAM allocated to it > > and I believe the ICH8 chipset also uses some memory, in any event mem=256 > > causes the machine to lockup before it can even get to the boot/init > > processes, the two leds on the keyboard were blinking, caps lock and > > scroll lock and I saw no console at all! > > Okay, so try mem=700M or disable CONFIG_HIGHMEM or something. > Pavel > -- > (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek > (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > I forgot to remove the mem=700M with PREEMPT off and this is what I saw this morning: [18005.261875] Killed process 4768 (screen) [18005.262343] Out of memory: kill process 4793 (screen) score 385 or a child [18005.262350] Killed process 4793 (screen) [18005.378536] Out of memory: kill process 4825 (screen) score 385 or a child [18005.378542] Killed process 4825 (screen) [18005.378547] Out of memory: kill process 4825 (screen) score 385 or a child [18005.378553] Killed process 4825 (screen) [18005.413072] Out of memory: kill process 4875 (screen) score 385 or a child [18005.413079] Killed process 4875 (screen) [18005.423735] Out of memory: kill process 4970 (screen) score 385 or a child [18005.423742] Killed process 4970 (screen) [18005.431391] Out of memory: kill process 21365 (xfs_fsr) score 286 or a child [18005.431398] Killed process 21365 (xfs_fsr) $ screen -ls There are screens on: 2532.pts-0.p34 (Dead ???) 3776.pts-2.p34 (Dead ???) 4768.pts-7.p34 (Dead ???) 4793.pts-9.p34 (Dead ???) 4825.pts-11.p34 (Dead ???) 4875.pts-13.p34 (Dead ???) 4970.pts-15.p34 (Dead ???) Lovely... $ uname -r 2.6.20-rc5 Something is seriously wrong with that OOM killer. Justin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
