Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.5-rc2-mm1 - swapoff dies with OOM, why? | From | Felipe Alfaro Solana <> | Date | Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:58:37 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 04:38, John Stoffel wrote: > Hi all, > > I've run into a strange situation here. I was having *terrible* > performance while doing a complile of the 2.6.5-rc2-mm2 kernel on my > system (Debian completely bleeding edge, plus udev and hotplug) along > with dealing with a USB problem where if I removed my Cuzer USB > device, it would never get de-allocated properly and the system load > would start to hang.
Are you using ext3? 2.6.5-rc2-mm1 has a memory leak that affects ext3 code. Thus, after some uptime of disk intensive work, nearly all memory is wasted up. Please, upgrade to latest -mm tree (which ATM is 2.6.5-rc2-mm4).
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