From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266703AbUG1BAc (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:00:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266717AbUG1BAb (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:00:31 -0400 Received: from smtp100.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.174.138]:53655 "HELO smtp100.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266703AbUG1BAa (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:00:30 -0400 Message-ID: <4106FAAB.5080106@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:00:27 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Debian/1.7-5 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ed Sweetman CC: Jens Axboe , Jan-Frode Myklebust , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: OOM-killer going crazy. References: <20040725094605.GA18324@zombie.inka.de> <41045EBE.8080708@comcast.net> <20040726091004.GA32403@ii.uib.no> <410500FD.8070206@comcast.net> <4105D7ED.5040206@yahoo.com.au> <20040727100724.GA11189@suse.de> <41065748.8050107@comcast.net> <41065902.20909@yahoo.com.au> <4106D978.7090008@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4106D978.7090008@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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?