Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:27:54 -0600 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.8-r1 mem issues |
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Max,
I reported the same problem. There is a patch that gets around this, however, it does Ooops in some situations in free_pages if you are using split address space AND low memory conditions. Nick Piggin has the patch.
Jeff
Max Michaels wrote:
>This is my first post, so please be forgiving of any faux-pas. I am >having issues with 2.6.8-r1 with memory being eaten by the kernel. Top >reveals that only about 35% of the memory (3GB) is being used but the >actual count of free memory is only about 10MB. /proc/slabinfo shows no >odd numbers and /proc/meminfo shows the same 10MB as the top total. No >processes account for this memory, so I'm assuming it must be the >kernel. Eventually, I run out of memory and OOM-killer starts killing >processes until it has some memory. Is there some troubleshooting method >I am missing or is this a known issue? > > >
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