Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 - OOM storm

Mike Galbraith
2006-08-11T07:30:15Z

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 23:55 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:33:51 +0000
> Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > kernel BUG at mm/vmscan.c:383!
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc3/2.6.18-rc3-mm2/hot-fixes/ ;)
>

Duh, I should have thought to look there first. Sorry.

Anyhoo, I can reproduce the problem. I now have ~800MB of cache that
echo 3 > drop_caches doesn't help with, and I just started swapping.

MemTotal: 1032656 kB
MemFree: 42704 kB
Buffers: 648 kB
Cached: 825468 kB
SwapCached: 29312 kB
Active: 31196 kB
Inactive: 830144 kB
HighTotal: 131008 kB
HighFree: 3056 kB
LowTotal: 901648 kB
LowFree: 39648 kB
SwapTotal: 1028152 kB
SwapFree: 961356 kB
Dirty: 156 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 17240 kB
Mapped: 10240 kB
Slab: 118536 kB
PageTables: 1876 kB
NFS Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 1544480 kB
Committed_AS: 266884 kB
VmallocTotal: 114680 kB
VmallocUsed: 5372 kB
VmallocChunk: 109216 kB