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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	werner <w.landgraf@ru.ru>, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: v3.4-rc2 out-of-memory problems (was Re: 3.4-rc1 sticks-and-crashs)
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:57:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8306ED.7080405@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762d9v10x.fsf@turtle.gmx.de>

On 04/09/2012 03:04 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:

> While I did not experience any crashes or instabilities (yet?), I'm also
> seeing memory leaks.  On a system started this morning, with hardly
> anything running:

> where I would expect no more than 50 MB used, 400 MB are actually in use:
>
> ,----
> | $ free
> |              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> | Mem:       3348400    1849712    1498688          0     328960    1119180
> | -/+ buffers/cache:     401572    2946828
> | Swap:      3719040          0    3719040
> `----

Do you see any big memory users in /proc/meminfo or in
/proc/slabinfo?

-- 
All rights reversed

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-09 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-09  2:42 v3.4-rc2 out-of-memory problems (was Re: 3.4-rc1 sticks-and-crashs) Linus Torvalds
2012-04-09  2:50 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-09  3:11   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-09  7:04     ` Sven Joachim
2012-04-09 15:24       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-09 15:43         ` Sven Joachim
2012-04-09 15:57       ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2012-04-09 16:19         ` Sven Joachim
2012-04-09 16:33           ` Rik van Riel
2012-04-09 17:00             ` Pekka Enberg
2012-04-09 17:19               ` Sven Joachim
2012-04-09 17:00             ` Sven Joachim
2012-04-09 17:20               ` Rik van Riel
2012-04-09 10:15     ` David Rientjes
2012-04-09 15:39       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-09 21:22         ` David Rientjes
2012-04-09 22:09           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-09 23:25             ` David Rientjes
2012-04-09 23:55               ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-10  0:04                 ` David Rientjes
2012-04-14 20:50                 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-04-09 23:56               ` [patch] android, lowmemorykiller: remove task handoff notifier David Rientjes
2012-04-10  1:23                 ` Colin Cross
     [not found]               ` <web-723076709@zbackend1.aha.ru>
     [not found]                 ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1204091637280.21813@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
     [not found]                   ` <web-723082731@zbackend1.aha.ru>
     [not found]                     ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1204091707580.21813@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
2012-04-10  7:09                       ` v3.4-rc2 out-of-memory problems (was Re: 3.4-rc1 sticks-and-crashs) werner
2012-04-10  7:10                       ` werner
2012-04-09 22:13           ` Colin Cross
2012-04-09 22:21             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-04-09 22:44               ` john stultz
2012-04-09 22:30             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-09 23:37             ` David Rientjes
2012-04-10  0:23               ` Colin Cross
2012-04-10  0:32                 ` David Rientjes
2012-04-10  1:21                   ` Colin Cross
2012-04-10  1:33                     ` David Rientjes
2012-04-10  1:37                       ` Colin Cross
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-04-09  6:52 werner
2012-04-09  7:01 werner
2012-04-10  1:52 werner
2012-04-10  1:51 ` Rik van Riel
2012-04-10  2:13   ` werner
2012-04-10 12:53 werner
2012-04-14 19:38 werner
2012-04-14 19:58 ` Rik van Riel
2012-04-14 21:03 ` Linus Torvalds

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