Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:00:27 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: OOM-killer going crazy. |
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Ed Sweetman wrote: > Nick Piggin wrote: >
>> OK so it does sound like a different problem. >> >> I didn't follow your other thread closely... does /proc/slabinfo >> show any evidence of a leak? > > > > Surprisingly no. You'd think that since the kernel is responsible for > saying what memory can't be touched or swapped out it would have some > sort of tag on the huge 600MB of ram I currently can't do anything with > since i burned that audio cd but slabinfo doesn't seem to show anything > about it. Maybe i'm reading it wrong. >
It could be memory coming straight out of the page allocator that isn't being freed.
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