From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: linux-kernel-news@e-dict.net
Cc: Ingo.Freund@e-dict.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: out of memory
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 20:40:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060403204048.092db2cc.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4431001C.5080905@e-dict.net>
Ingo Freund <Ingo.Freund@e-dict.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> on our database machine with 4 GB RAM and 2 XEON CPUs I got the
> following kernel messages.
> There are 2 GB RAM declared as shared memory for database usage.
> Can anybody explain to me what happened and -may be- why?
>
You have a kernel memory leak.
>
> Apr 2 10:55:09 widbrz01 kernel: oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0
It was a GFP_KERNEL allocation.
> Apr 2 10:56:10 dbm kernel: Normal free:3168kB min:3756kB low:4692kB high:5632kB active:700kB inactive:548kB present:901120kB
There's a grand total of 1.2MB of ZONE_NORMAL memory on the LRU. The rest
(900MB-odd) is lost.
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-04 3:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-03 10:59 out of memory Ingo Freund
2006-04-04 3:40 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-04-04 8:31 ` Ingo Freund
2006-04-04 8:54 ` Andrew Morton
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2003-02-12 17:29 Balram Adlakha
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