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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Ed Sweetman <safemode@comcast.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
	Jan-Frode Myklebust <janfrode@parallab.uib.no>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OOM-killer going crazy.
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:00:27 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4106FAAB.5080106@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4106D978.7090008@comcast.net>

Ed Sweetman wrote:
> Nick Piggin wrote:
> 

>> OK so it does sound like a different problem.
>>
>> I didn't follow your other thread closely... does /proc/slabinfo
>> show any evidence of a leak?
> 
> 
> 
> Surprisingly no. You'd think that since the kernel is responsible for 
> saying what memory can't be touched or swapped out it would have some 
> sort of tag on the huge 600MB of ram I currently can't do anything with 
> since i burned that audio cd but slabinfo doesn't seem to show anything 
> about it. Maybe i'm reading it wrong.
> 

It could be memory coming straight out of the page allocator that
isn't being freed.

Jens, any ideas?

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-28  1:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-25  9:46 memory not released after using cdrecord/cdrdao (was: audio cd writing causes massive swap and crash) Eduard Bloch
2004-07-26  1:30 ` Ed Sweetman
2004-07-26  9:10   ` OOM-killer going crazy. (was: Re: memory not released after using cdrecord/cdrdao) Jan-Frode Myklebust
2004-07-26 10:55     ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-26 11:10       ` Jan-Frode Myklebust
2004-07-26 11:43         ` OOM-killer going crazy Nick Piggin
2004-07-26 12:46           ` Jan-Frode Myklebust
2004-07-27  1:00             ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-26 13:02     ` Ed Sweetman
2004-07-27  4:19       ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-27 10:07         ` Jens Axboe
2004-07-27 13:23           ` Ed Sweetman
2004-07-27 13:30             ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-27 22:38               ` Ed Sweetman
2004-07-28  1:00                 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-07-28  6:30                   ` Ed Sweetman
2004-07-28  6:45                     ` Jens Axboe
2004-07-28 12:58                       ` Ed Sweetman
2004-07-28 13:31                         ` Jens Axboe
2004-07-29  0:08 ` memory not released after using cdrecord/cdrdao (was: audio cd writing causes massive swap and crash) William Lee Irwin III

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