From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932207Ab2DIP5q (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2012 11:57:46 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:62285 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932104Ab2DIP5p (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2012 11:57:45 -0400 Message-ID: <4F8306ED.7080405@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:57:33 -0400 From: Rik van Riel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120329 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sven Joachim CC: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , werner , David Rientjes , Hugh Dickins , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oleg Nesterov Subject: Re: v3.4-rc2 out-of-memory problems (was Re: 3.4-rc1 sticks-and-crashs) References: <20120408195044.13ea6c8e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <8762d9v10x.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <8762d9v10x.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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