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From: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Firefox out of memory
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 04:41:49
Message-Id: 20051120043620.GA9466@princeton.edu
1 Hum, I came home today to find the firefox instance that has been
2 running for 3 or 4 days killed. Apparently it was an out of memory
3 thing. Dmesg gave the following
4
5 oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2
6 DMA per-cpu:
7 cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
8 cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
9 Normal per-cpu:
10 cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
11 cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
12 HighMem per-cpu: empty
13
14 Free pages: 5084kB (0kB HighMem)
15 Active:59562 inactive:60153 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:1271 slab:4128 mapped:118884 pagetables:1131
16 DMA free:2068kB min:88kB low:108kB high:132kB active:4656kB inactive:4340kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:10016 all_unreclaimable? yes
17 lowmem_reserve[]: 0 495 495
18 Normal free:3016kB min:2800kB low:3500kB high:4200kB active:233592kB inactive:236272kB present:507136kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
19 lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
20 HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:160kB high:192kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
21 lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
22 DMA: 1*4kB 0*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2068kB
23 Normal: 94*4kB 8*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3016kB
24 HighMem: empty
25 Swap cache: add 501655, delete 501655, find 340263/374434, race 0+0
26 Free swap = 0kB
27 Total swap = 787176kB
28 Out of Memory: Killed process 14074 (firefox-bin).
29
30 Can anyone tell me what that means? This is the first time that
31 firefox has actually been killed by the kernel for going out of
32 memory, and there have been times when I left a firefox window open
33 for much longer (weeks at times).
34
35 Thanks,
36
37 W
38 --
39 If you buy the paperback version of Maxwell's _Treatise_, on the cover,
40 this diagram is drawn... worked out in the 1870's, without a pocket
41 calculator...
42 ~Prof. Kirk T. McDonald, DeathEM, P-town PHY 304
43 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 7 days, 20:53
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