swap/oom/slow downs
Orion Poplawski
orion at cora.nwra.com
Thu Feb 26 03:33:08 UTC 2009
On Wed, February 25, 2009 4:47 pm, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 February 2009 01:58:29 pm King InuYasha wrote:
>> When I switched to Fedora 9, I upped the swap
>> space because of some slowdowns that I experienced because of swap
>> maxing
>> out. And in Fedora 10, it uses this configuration.
>
> That doesn't make sense. If swap is maxed out, something gets OOM killed,
> not
> slowed down.
I see a fairly reproducible issue with acroread run as a mozilla plugin
consuming all memory and killing the machine. OOM doesn't kill it.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438886
Unfortunately haven't had much time to investigate further. Basically we
don't run with the pdf plugin enabled anymore.
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