2.6.24.3-12.fc8 memory issue?
Peter McNeil
peter at mcneils.net
Mon Mar 10 03:20:27 UTC 2008
Frank Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:55:06 +1100
> Peter McNeil <peter at mcneils.net> wrote:
>
>
>> G'day all,
>>
>> did a yum update this morning which updated the kernel to
>> 2.6.24.3-12.fc8 then started my IDE and a largish program (java), as
>> soon as I hit the physical memory limit (2GB) the machine hangs
>> (freezes) sometimes the mouse freezes too. I have to power down to recover.
>>
>> ...]$ uname -a
>> Linux foo-foo.mcneils.net 2.6.24.3-12.fc8 #1 SMP Tue Feb 26 14:21:30 EST
>> 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> is this a known problem?
>>
>
> Do you have any swap file(s)?
>
> What is the output of "free" (without the quotes).
>
Very hard to tell, the machine literally freezes. I'm watching the
System Monitor while I load the apps and memory goes to 100% swap
doesn't seem to rise at all.
Right, just sshed into the machine and ran top while I filled the memory
with java apps and it froze at this point:-
top - 14:13:36 up 29 min, 4 users, load average: 1.32, 0.56, 0.38
Tasks: 162 total, 1 running, 161 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 18.2%us, 6.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 43.0%id, 32.1%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.7%si,
0.0%st
Mem: 2061304k total, 2042936k used, 18368k free, 44764k buffers
Swap: 2031608k total, 0k used, 2031608k free, 679356k cached
So swap isn't being used and the memory (inc cache) is filled at the
point it freezes.
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