On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:51:44 +0800
"Figo.zhang" <zhangtianfei@leadcoretech.com> wrote:

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> 
> i had send the patch to protect the hardware access processes for 
> oom-killer before, but rientjes have not agree with me.
> 
> but today i catch log from my desktop. oom-killer have kill my "minicom" 
> and "Xorg". so i think it should add protection about it.
> 

Off topic.

In this log, I found

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> > Jan  4 15:22:55 figo-desktop kernel: Free swap  = -1636kB
> > Jan  4 15:22:55 figo-desktop kernel: Total swap = 0kB
> > Jan  4 15:22:55 figo-desktop kernel: 515070 pages RAM

... This means total_swap_pages = 0 while pages are read-in at swapoff.

Let's see 'points' for oom 
==
points = (get_mm_rss(p->mm) + get_mm_counter(p->mm, MM_SWAPENTS)) * 1000 /
                        totalpages;
==

Here, totalpages = total_ram + total_swap but totalswap is 0 here.

So, points can be > 1000, easily.
(This seems not to be related to the Xorg's death itself)



Thanks,
-Kame

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