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[Brad Figg <brad.figg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Title:
  Android low memory handler driver kills processes when there's still
  free RAM/swap

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  When I'm doing something memory intensive such as compiling a large
  project I find that I start getting processes killed (mainly Chrome),
  despite there still being a large amount of swap free. At first I
  thought this was being done by the normal Linux oom-killer, but it's
  actually the Android low memory handler driver which is built into the
  default Ubuntu kernel configuration. Example of the messages I get in
  syslog when a process is killed:

  Jul 31 11:04:34 asmith-linux kernel: [84686.869462] select 8851 (chrome), adj 300, size 18339, to kill
  Jul 31 11:04:34 asmith-linux kernel: [84686.869479] send sigkill to 8851 (chrome), adj 300, size 18339

  When this happens, although main memory is close to full, my swap is
  barely utilised at all - I have an 8GB swap partition, but I've yet to
  see more than around 1GB of it get used.

  Kernel version: Ubuntu 3.8.0-27.40-generic 3.8.13.4

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