Re: Mem issues in 2.6.9 (ever since 2.6.9-rc3) and possible cause

Thomas Gleixner
2004-10-30T10:51:49Z

On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 18:53 +0900, Hiroyuki KAMEZAWA wrote:
> > Should I move your fix into the loop or move the declaration of area to
> > function scope?
> >
> Oh, Okay, my patch was wrong ;(.
> Very sorry for wrong hack.
> This one will be Okay.

It fixes at least the corrupted output of show_free_areas().
DMA: 4294966389*4kB 4294966983*8kB 4294967156*16kB .....
Normal: 4294954991*4kB 4294962949*8kB 4294965607*16kB ....

now it's
DMA: 248*4kB 63*8kB 7*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB ...
Normal: 204*4kB 416*8kB 157*16kB 20*32kB 3*64kB ...

Good catch.

But it still does not fix the random madness of oom-killer. Once it is
triggered it keeps going even if there is 50MB free memory available.

tglx