Bug 609362

Summary: oom killed unrelated processes for Desktop workload
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Qian Cai <qcai>
Component: kernelAssignee: Red Hat Kernel Manager <kernel-mgr>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
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Version: 6.0   
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Description Qian Cai 2010-06-30 05:38:27 UTC 
Description of problem:
When using a program to malloc memory bigger than system memory + swap, it killed non-related processes like devkit-power-daemon, gconfd-2, gvfsd, NetworkManager, gvfsd-trash etc on my T400 laptop installed standard Desktop distro.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.32-37.el6.x86_64
RHEL6-20100622.1 tree

How reproducible:
always
Comment 1 Qian Cai 2010-06-30 05:44:51 UTC 
Created attachment 427862 [details]
dmesg when oom happened
Comment 2 Qian Cai 2010-07-01 03:39:02 UTC 
This is more a long term item to make the OOM smarter - http://lwn.net/Articles/359998/
Comment 4 Qian Cai 2010-10-25 00:59:42 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 645770 ***