From: Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
To: David Ashley <dash@xdr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cached memory never gets released
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:44:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874qp2dshk.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406231835.i5NIZTSJ019899@xdr.com> (David Ashley's message of "Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:35:29 -0700")
David Ashley <dash@xdr.com> writes:
> There is some new information that might be useful. The cache memory
> lower limit seems to be going up by 1 or 2 megabytes whenever the kernel
> kills the XFree86 process:
> Jun 23 11:20:16 __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> Jun 23 11:20:16 VM: killing process XFree86
>
> Could it be when the kernel kills a process for trying to use up too much
> memory, the pages used by the process get left in some locked state so can
> never be reused?
>
> This is the sort of behaviour we're seeing, it is very reproduceable.
>
>
> Note this is kernel 2.4.23.
Have you tried a kernel that's less than 8 months old? 2.4.26 is current.
-Doug
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2004-06-23 18:35 Cached memory never gets released David Ashley
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