Re: OOM-killer going crazy.

[Ed Sweetman <safemode@comcast.net>]

Nick Piggin wrote:

> 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?
> -



Con Kolivas' 2.6.8-rc1-ck6 snapshot patch seems fix the problem.  Not 
only is my audio not corrupted when i write a disk but I get no mem leak 
situation and thus no OOM.  I did 5 dummy burns with no swap being used 
and stable vm statistics, final real burn resulted in successful disc.

2.6.8-rc1 2.6.8-rc1-mm both flipped out.  ck touches all relevent files 
so something the patch does fixed whatever was wrong.