From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: htejun@gmail.com, stable@kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
maneesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>, Gautham Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-stable causes oomkiller to be invoked
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:29:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071213162936.GA7635@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071213151847.GB5676@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 08:48:47PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 06:53:26PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 06:03:33PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> > > Hi Greg, Tejun,
> > >
> > > The following script causes oomkiller to be invoked on my system here.
> > >
> > > while echo; do cat /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded; done
> > >
> >
> > while echo; do cat /sys/kernel/uevent_seqnum ; done;
> >
> > causes oomkiller to be invoked on 2.6.22-stable, 2.6.23-stable and
> > 2.6.24-rc5 as well. It seems not be particularly related to any single
> > file in sysfs.
> >
>
> And on 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 as well.
How long do you have to run this? I'm not seeing a problem here with
2.6.24-rc5 using SLUB, but I might not have run things long enough.
I ran slabinfo and don't see anything leaking either, do you?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-13 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-13 12:33 2.6.22-stable causes oomkiller to be invoked Dhaval Giani
2007-12-13 13:23 ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-13 15:18 ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-13 16:29 ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-12-13 16:46 ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-13 17:54 ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-14 14:41 ` Tejun Heo
2007-12-14 15:47 ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-14 15:54 ` Tejun Heo
2007-12-14 16:16 ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-14 17:50 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-14 18:28 ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-14 23:05 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-15 3:52 ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-15 6:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-15 10:44 ` Dhaval Giani
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[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712171222470.29500@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
2007-12-21 4:45 ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-26 21:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-28 10:11 ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-02 20:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-02 21:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-03 3:59 ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-03 4:16 ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-03 21:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-07 20:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-08 4:33 ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-30 14:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-30 19:24 ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-02 20:48 ` Christoph Lameter
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