David Chinner wrote:
> The symptoms you see are the machine running out of memory and the OOM
> killer being invoked. There's nothing XFS here - you'd do better to post
> to lkml about this.

So, I was wrong .... :$

> Hmmm - you appear to have a highmem based box and have run out of
> low memory for the kernel. So while having ~9.5GB of free high
> memory (that the kernel can't directly use), you're out of low
> memory that the kernel can use and hence it is going OOM.  The
> output of /proc/slabinfo or watching slabtop will tell you where
> most of this memory is going.

Please find attached the output from /proc/slabinfo from both servers,
as well as output from slabtop from server 1.

> 
> FWIW, I suggest upgrading to a 64 bit machine ;)

I'm currently migrating those 2 servers to 2 64 Bit setups ;)

Thanks for your advice.

Laurent