Re: More 2.4 memory usage wierdness?

[Vincent Sweeney <v.sweeney@dexterus.com>]

Vincent Sweeney wrote:
> 
> I have a question regarding a busy box I recently updated to
> '2.4.2-ac20'. It has been running for several hours without any real
> problems until I started getting 'dmesg' entries like:
> 
> Out of Memory: Killed process 30293 (httpd).
> Out of Memory: Killed process 32552 (mysqld).
> 
> Not a quick check with 'top' shows:
> 
> Mem:   771440K av,  396060K used,  375380K free,       0K shrd,    4972K
> buff
> Swap:  379416K av,  345000K used,   34416K free                  337128K
> cached
> 
> I have also attached my "/proc/meminfo" & "/proc/slabinfo" details.
> 
> Basically they all show the server has 370MB of free physical memory but
> its using lots of swap space and OOM is killing processes.
> 
> What gives?
> 
> Vince.

Maybe I should of also made it clear that is I run the same box with
2.2.18 I have no memory issues and swap is not used at all but when I
run with 2.4.2 I suddenly see my memory usage increase over 300MB and my
swap space maxes out.

-- 
Vincent Sweeney
System Architect