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SubjectRe: 2.6.8-r1 mem issues
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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