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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	werner <w.landgraf@ru.ru>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: v3.4-rc2 out-of-memory problems (was Re: 3.4-rc1 sticks-and-crashs)
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 19:50:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120408195044.13ea6c8e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwTFXtMLhXo7g9F7uyHc3W8SCw7z1gTm9jbWXM3Nqc_ZA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 19:42:31 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Guys, there's something wrong in the VM. Most likely suspects added to
> the participants list.
> 
> Apparently things go south and the oom killer is invoked. X.org seems
> to get killed.
> 
> Any hints? Werner traditionally finds problems by enabling every
> single config option there is, I assume this is another of those
> kernes..
> 
>
> ...
>
> > Apr __8 20:29:11 werner kernel: Normal free:44004kB min:44012kB low:55012kB
> > high:66016kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:132kB
> > inactive_file:140kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB
> > present:885944kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:0kB shmem:0kB
> > slab_reclaimable:13068kB slab_unreclaimable:147784kB kernel_stack:628952kB
> > pagetables:0kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:1376
> > all_unreclaimable? yes

That's claiming that 600MB of ZONE_NORMAL is being used for kernel stacks.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-09  2:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-09  2:42 v3.4-rc2 out-of-memory problems (was Re: 3.4-rc1 sticks-and-crashs) Linus Torvalds
2012-04-09  2:50 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-04-09  3:11   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-09  7:04     ` Sven Joachim
2012-04-09 15:24       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-09 15:43         ` Sven Joachim
2012-04-09 15:57       ` Rik van Riel
2012-04-09 16:19         ` Sven Joachim
2012-04-09 16:33           ` Rik van Riel
2012-04-09 17:00             ` Pekka Enberg
2012-04-09 17:19               ` Sven Joachim
2012-04-09 17:00             ` Sven Joachim
2012-04-09 17:20               ` Rik van Riel
2012-04-09 10:15     ` David Rientjes
2012-04-09 15:39       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-09 21:22         ` David Rientjes
2012-04-09 22:09           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-09 23:25             ` David Rientjes
2012-04-09 23:55               ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-10  0:04                 ` David Rientjes
2012-04-14 20:50                 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-04-09 23:56               ` [patch] android, lowmemorykiller: remove task handoff notifier David Rientjes
2012-04-10  1:23                 ` Colin Cross
     [not found]               ` <web-723076709@zbackend1.aha.ru>
     [not found]                 ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1204091637280.21813@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
     [not found]                   ` <web-723082731@zbackend1.aha.ru>
     [not found]                     ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1204091707580.21813@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
2012-04-10  7:09                       ` v3.4-rc2 out-of-memory problems (was Re: 3.4-rc1 sticks-and-crashs) werner
2012-04-10  7:10                       ` werner
2012-04-09 22:13           ` Colin Cross
2012-04-09 22:21             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-04-09 22:44               ` john stultz
2012-04-09 22:30             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-09 23:37             ` David Rientjes
2012-04-10  0:23               ` Colin Cross
2012-04-10  0:32                 ` David Rientjes
2012-04-10  1:21                   ` Colin Cross
2012-04-10  1:33                     ` David Rientjes
2012-04-10  1:37                       ` Colin Cross
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-04-09  6:52 werner
2012-04-09  7:01 werner
2012-04-10  1:52 werner
2012-04-10  1:51 ` Rik van Riel
2012-04-10  2:13   ` werner
2012-04-10 12:53 werner
2012-04-14 19:38 werner
2012-04-14 19:58 ` Rik van Riel
2012-04-14 21:03 ` Linus Torvalds

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