Re: Memory use...

["Sean" <seanlkml sympatico ca>]

On Tue, March 1, 2005 12:00 pm, Arjan van de Ven said:
> On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 10:09 -0500, Sean wrote:
>> Yesterday, we had a couple processes OOM killed while the box should
>> have been almost unused.   So we're trying to look at memory use a
>> bit closer. What are the best tools?
>
> what kind of machine is it (eg how much memory, 32 or 64 bit cpu), what
> kind of workload is this and are there any 3rd party kernel components
> in use ?

Hi Arjan,

  It's a Dual Xeon (em64t) machine.   There is really a light workload
presently because we're still in the lab with it.   There may have been
a compile or two running on that machine at the time it OOM'd.   When
the problem occurred we were running the stock release kernel (not the
update).   We will eventually need to run a custom kernel to handle some
obscure hardware, but we're just taking baby steps at this point.

Sean