From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@drdos.com>
To: Max Michaels <mmichaels@rightmedia.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.8-r1 mem issues
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:27:54 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <414EF6FA.10102@drdos.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0FC82FC6709BE34CB9118EE0E252FD2307994E70@ehost007.exch005intermedia.net>
Max,
I reported the same problem. There is a patch that gets around this,
however, it does
Ooops in some situations in free_pages if you are using split address space
AND low memory conditions. Nick Piggin has the patch.
Jeff
Max Michaels wrote:
>This is my first post, so please be forgiving of any faux-pas. I am
>having issues with 2.6.8-r1 with memory being eaten by the kernel. Top
>reveals that only about 35% of the memory (3GB) is being used but the
>actual count of free memory is only about 10MB. /proc/slabinfo shows no
>odd numbers and /proc/meminfo shows the same 10MB as the top total. No
>processes account for this memory, so I'm assuming it must be the
>kernel. Eventually, I run out of memory and OOM-killer starts killing
>processes until it has some memory. Is there some troubleshooting method
>I am missing or is this a known issue?
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-20 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-19 23:20 2.6.8-r1 mem issues Max Michaels
2004-09-20 0:18 ` Jon Masters
2004-09-20 10:33 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-20 15:27 ` Jeff V. Merkey [this message]
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2004-09-20 0:29 Max Michaels
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