Re: [Yaffs] Running fsstress on YAFFS2 causes panic

On Friday 16 May 2008 11:46:55 HAGARGUNDGI ROHIT wrote:
> Can somebody throw some light as to why this is happening.
> Thanks a lot
> Rohit
>
>
> fsstress invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0, oomkilladj=0

Hi,

The line above is the clue. Your system is running out of memory, and the
kernel is killing the fstress process. It's not a fault with the filesystem
or with the code, nor is it a kernel panic (despite the scary backtrace).

The 'oom-killer' (out of memory killer) uses a set of heuristics to determine
which process to kill. Generally, it picks on the process using the most
memory.

Bye for now,
--
Laurence Withers, <l@lwithers.me.uk>
http://www.lwithers.me.uk