From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
To: "Nico Schottelius" <nico-kernel20120920@schottelius.org>
Cc: "David Rientjes" <rientjes@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Stanislaw Gruszka" <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Out of memory on 3.5 kernels
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:44:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <505AC952.60501@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120920073245.GA1327@schottelius.org>
On 09/20/2012 09:32 AM, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Hey David,
>
> David Rientjes [Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:54:54PM -0700]:
>> >On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Nico Schottelius wrote:
>> >
>>> > >for some time the slab usage is quite high (~3.2 GiB) and whenever I try
>>> > >to do a backup with ccollect (which is using rsync), a lot of processes
>>> > >(like chromium) are being killed over night.
>>> > >
>> >
>> >Yeah, over 81% of your memory is consumed by slab and that doesn't shrink
>> >over the duration of the log you posted. It would be interesting to see
>> >if there was a leak somewhere: try looking at slabtop and determining if
>> >you have a cache using an egregious amount of memory;
> I already had to reboot, because no now process was starting / only
> starting extremly slowly.
>
Hi Nico,
Being curious (and suspicious) over here. Are you doing the rsync over
wireless interface using brcmsmac? I am currently looking at bugzilla
#47721 (see [1]) and maybe this is related.
Gr. AvS
[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47721
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-20 7:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-20 6:02 Out of memory on 3.5 kernels Nico Schottelius
2012-09-20 6:54 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-20 7:32 ` Nico Schottelius
2012-09-20 7:44 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2012-09-20 8:21 ` Nico Schottelius
2012-09-20 12:12 ` Nico Schottelius
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-09-20 13:52 Arend van Spriel
2012-09-21 19:49 ` Nico Schottelius
2012-09-24 22:43 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-25 15:07 ` Dave Kleikamp
2012-09-26 6:03 ` Nico Schottelius
2012-09-26 6:06 ` Nico Schottelius
2012-09-26 8:57 ` Nico Schottelius
2012-09-27 5:52 ` Nico Schottelius
2012-10-03 21:23 ` Nico Schottelius
2012-10-05 15:48 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-10-05 17:51 ` Nico Schottelius
2012-10-30 10:35 ` Nico Schottelius
2012-11-21 22:37 ` Dave Kleikamp
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