From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262092AbTLVSgG (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2003 13:36:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262745AbTLVSgG (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2003 13:36:06 -0500 Received: from mtaw6.prodigy.net ([64.164.98.56]:45017 "EHLO mtaw6.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262092AbTLVSgE (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2003 13:36:04 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:35:54 -0800 From: Mike Fedyk To: Ville Herva , Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andrea@suse.de Subject: Re: lot of VM problem with 2.4.23 Message-ID: <20031222183554.GN6438@matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: Ville Herva , Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andrea@suse.de References: <20031221150312.GJ25043@ovh.net> <20031221154227.GB1323@alpha.home.local> <20031221161324.GN25043@ovh.net> <20031221191431.GP25043@ovh.net> <20031221210917.GB4897@ovh.net> <20031221222338.GC1323@alpha.home.local> <20031222070344.GL1524@niksula.cs.hut.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031222070344.GL1524@niksula.cs.hut.fi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:03:44AM +0200, Ville Herva wrote: > BTW, I have a box with 128MB ram and 512MB swap running 2.4.21-jam1 (it has > the -aa vm). I can't shut it down cleanly, because trying it goes into > endless loop trying to free memory when turning off swap. Nothing but > alt-sysrq-b seems to work. > > I don't know if there is a kernel memory leak, since all user level > processes should be killed at that point, right? Unfortunately I didn't have > time to dig deeper, as the box is in (sort of) production. Maybe, it depends on your init scripts. Does your distribution do a kill -9 of all processes before turning off swap?