From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: rathamahata@php4.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gluk@php4.ru,
anton@megashop.ru
Subject: Re: 2.6.1 IO lockup on SMP systems
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:53:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040223225337.217447be.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58L.0402240357350.6209@logos.cnet>
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> wrote:
>
> > Also, run
> >
> > while true
> > do
> > cat /proc/meminfo
> > sleep 10
> > done
> >
> > and record the info which that leaves behind when the machine locks up.
> > This should tell us whether it is an application or kernel memory leak. If
> > it is indeed a leak.
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Care to explain me why should the kernel hang if due to an application
> leak ?
It shouldn't - the oom killer should have done something. But we'll
address that once we've confirmed that something really is leaking.
> The hang looks wrong even if the leak is in userspace app, yes?
Probably, yes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-24 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-31 16:40 2.6.1 IO lockup on SMP systems Sergey S. Kostyliov
2004-02-01 0:17 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-21 16:45 ` Sergey S. Kostyliov
2004-02-21 19:30 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-22 17:39 ` Alexander Y. Fomichev
2004-02-23 17:27 ` Sergey S. Kostyliov
2004-02-23 21:30 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-24 11:56 ` Sergey S. Kostyliov
2004-02-23 22:26 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-24 7:23 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-02-24 6:53 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-02-24 11:54 ` Sergey S. Kostyliov
2004-02-26 12:19 ` Sergey S. Kostyliov
2004-02-26 12:53 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-26 13:11 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-26 14:37 ` Dave Jones
2004-02-26 15:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-02-26 14:30 ` Sergey S. Kostyliov
2004-02-26 20:03 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-28 14:56 ` Sergey S. Kostyliov
2004-04-08 9:08 ` 2.6.X kernel memory leak? (was: Re: 2.6.1 IO lockup on SMP systems) Sergey S. Kostyliov
2004-04-09 7:17 ` 2.6.X kernel memory leak? Sergey S. Kostyliov
2004-04-09 9:09 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-09 12:15 ` Sergey S. Kostyliov
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