3.7.0-rc2 can't handle mutt (with 3.7G mail file) +FF (4 tabs) on a 4G memory+4 core system ?
To me this looks like an issue with swap. Can you try without swap (swapoff)?
Ortwin
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To me this looks like an issue with swap. Can you try without swap (swapoff)?
Not sure but my random guess is it could be related to a small tmpfs in my setting
tmpfs 1869900 240 1869660 1% /tmp
As I just noticed that I couldn't quit from mutt due to tmpfs is full.
Maybe it was just shrinking tmpfs caused problem? then I can think of deleting tmpfs from my setup..
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As I just noticed that I couldn't quit from mutt due to tmpfs is full.
That's also pointing towards high memory pressure.
Quoted 8 lines · Ortwin Glück
Quoted 2 lines · Luming Yu
As I just noticed that I couldn't quit from mutt due to tmpfs is full.
That's also pointing towards high memory pressure.
watch "cat /proc/meminfo" just showed me the progress
mutt was creating a very large tmp file in /tmp/ until "memfree" reached a watermark then failed with a message like " no space in /tmp"
sounds like I can't use mutt if my mutt mail file is close to the physical memory
I have when tmp-on-tmpfs is enabled..
hmm....make sens? maybe we can't use tmp-on-tmpfs feature in f18
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Quoted 8 lines · Ortwin Glück
Quoted 2 lines · Luming Yu
As I just noticed that I couldn't quit from mutt due to tmpfs is full.
That's also pointing towards high memory pressure.
watch "cat
/proc/meminfo" just showed me the progress
mutt was creating a very large tmp file in/tmp/until "memfree" reached a watermark then failed with a message like " no space in /tmp"
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sounds like I can't use mutt if my mutt mail file is close to the physical memory
I have when tmp-on-tmpfs is enabled..hmm....make sens? maybe we can't use tmp-on-tmpfs feature in f18
but why not having disk to backup tmpfs under memory pressure?
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hmm....make sens? maybe we can't use tmp-on-tmpfs feature in f18
but why not having disk to backup tmpfs under memory pressure?
It should. tmpfs should use all available RAM+swap. But then I guess you have no swap, and the kernel simply is desperately trying to find memory for a slab/slub or whatever. OOM killer can't help because the temp file uses the space, not a process.
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Quoted 4 lines · Luming Yu
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hmm....make sens? maybe we can't use tmp-on-tmpfs feature in f18
but why not having disk to backup tmpfs under memory pressure?
It should. tmpfs should use all available RAM+swap. But then I guess you
there is swap space available, but somehow it didn't help as the attached pic shows in my latest testing with 3.7.0-rc4
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have no swap, and the kernel simply is desperately trying to find memory for a slab/slub or whatever. OOM killer can't help because the temp file uses the space, not a process.