From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932385AbWDDIzb (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Apr 2006 04:55:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932396AbWDDIzb (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Apr 2006 04:55:31 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:3272 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932385AbWDDIzb (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Apr 2006 04:55:31 -0400 Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 01:54:32 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: linux-kernel-news@e-dict.net Cc: Ingo.Freund@e-dict.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: out of memory Message-Id: <20060404015432.255fe0aa.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <44322EC5.5030006@e-dict.net> References: <4431001C.5080905@e-dict.net> <20060403204048.092db2cc.akpm@osdl.org> <44322EC5.5030006@e-dict.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Freund wrote: > Please don't edit Cc:'s when working with kernel developers - just do reply-to-all. > Andrew Morton wrote: > > Ingo Freund wrote: > >> Apr 2 10:56:11 dbm kernel: 8538 pages slab > > > > and it's not in slab. > > > >> Apr 2 10:56:11 dbm kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.13. > > > > Boy, 2.6.13 was a long time ago - I'm sure we fixed many leaks since then, > > but I do not recall any particular patch which might fix this, sorry. > > > > Your best option would be to seek a kernel upgrade. > > I'll give a try to the last kernel version OK, 2.6.16.1 would suit. > Is there a way to get those kernel/memory information from time > to time from the running system which I found in the syslog file? /proc/meminfo gives a decent summary. To watch your ZONE_NORMAL disappearing it would be better to monitor /proc/zoneinfo. There you'll see `free', `active', `inactive' and `present'. In /proc/meminfo you'll find the slab utilisation. It should be approximately true that free+active+inactive+slab = present.