Re: OOM-killer going crazy.

Nick Piggin
2004-07-28T01:00:32Z

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?