Re: 2.4.16: Out of memory - when still more than 100MB free

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On 17 Dec 2001, Samuli Suonpaa wrote:

> I've got VMWare killed a couple of times mysteriously. 
> 
> I've got 256MB memory and no swap on my laptop running 2.4.16 and for
> some reason VMWare has got killed with the following syslog
> information:
> 
> Dec 17 23:33:23 puck kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 28803 (vmware).
> Dec 17 23:33:35 puck kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 28804 (vmware).
> Dec 17 23:33:37 puck kernel: /dev/vmmon: Vmx86_ReleaseVM: unlocked pages: 75286, unlocked dirty pages: 51084

Samuli, 

The problem is that buffer/cache/{i,d}cache pages are not getting freed
easily, and instead the kernel swapouts anonymous memory.

Could you please try 2.4.17-rc1 and tell me if it makes a difference for
you ? 

Thanks