Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Dec 2003 23:18:17 +0200 | From | Ville Herva <> | Subject | Re: lot of VM problem with 2.4.23 |
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 08:09:43PM +0100, you [Andrea Arcangeli] wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:03:44AM +0200, Ville Herva wrote: > > > > BTW, I have a box with 128MB ram and 512MB swap running 2.4.21-jam1 (it has > > the -aa vm). I can't shut it down cleanly, because trying it goes into > > endless loop trying to free memory when turning off swap. Nothing but > > alt-sysrq-b seems to work. > > > > I don't know if there is a kernel memory leak, since all user level > > processes should be killed at that point, right? Unfortunately I didn't have > > time to dig deeper, as the box is in (sort of) production. > > if this is a leak, I doubt it has been introduced recently, the only > swap accounting related change was in the shm layer, and it was supposed > to be a race fix. You may want to check if you've some shm allocated > in /dev/shm or ipcs, while the machine reboots.
I'll check that the next time I reboot.
Unfortunately the box is in (semi-)production so I can't reboot it at will.
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