Bug 392351

Summary: Long Delay before OOMKill launches
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Larry Woodman <lwoodman>
Component: kernelAssignee: Larry Woodman <lwoodman>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Martin Jenner <mjenner>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 5.1CC: ddomingo, dzickus, lwang, tao
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2008-0314 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-05-21 15:02:10 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 252939    
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Comment 1 Linda Wang 2007-12-14 15:09:19 UTC
*** Bug 424971 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2007-12-14 15:15:31 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 4 Don Zickus 2007-12-17 19:37:39 UTC
in 2.6.18-61.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5

Comment 6 Don Domingo 2008-02-06 03:03:24 UTC
added to RHEL5.2 release notes under "Kernel-Related Updates":

<quote>
A bug that delayed <command>oomkill</command> from launching in a timely fashion
on systems with large memory is now fixed.
</quote>

please advise if any further revisions are required. thanks!

Comment 7 Ben Woodard 2008-02-14 02:45:13 UTC
Created attachment 294864 [details]
console log 

console log from -81 kernel

Comment 8 Don Domingo 2008-04-02 02:11:00 UTC
Hi,
the RHEL5.2 release notes will be dropped to translation on April 15, 2008, at
which point no further additions or revisions will be entertained.

a mockup of the RHEL5.2 release notes can be viewed at the following link:
http://intranet.corp.redhat.com/ic/intranet/RHEL5u2relnotesmockup.html

please use the aforementioned link to verify if your bugzilla is already in the
release notes (if it needs to be). each item in the release notes contains a
link to its original bug; as such, you can search through the release notes by
bug number.

Cheers,
Don

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2008-05-21 15:02:10 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0314.html