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SubjectRe: [PATCH] trim memory not covered by WB MTRRs
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:54:37 -0400 (EDT) Justin Piszcz wrote:

> Hm, not sure if it was from the patch or what but I ran this:
>
> 1. swapoff -a
> 2. ./eatmem
>
> The machine responded to ping and alt-sysrq-b but the box remain
> unresponsive, I guess the kernel did not kill the process? :(
>
> The moments before it 'froze'
>
> top - 18:48:01 up 15 min, 7 users, load average: 6.61, 18.50, 13.31
> Tasks: 200 total, 18 running, 182 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 90.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 5.9%id, 3.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
> 0.0%st
> Mem: 8039576k total, 7998860k used, 40716k free, 8k buffers
> Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 1664k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 248 root 11 -5 0 0 0 R 85 0.0 0:16.05 kswapd0
> 2265 nut 18 0 13320 244 4 R 40 0.0 0:03.13 newhidups
> 2267 nut 18 0 12216 168 4 R 40 0.0 0:02.04 upsd
> 2474 ntp 18 0 22192 400 8 R 39 0.0 0:02.00 ntpd
> 3563 jpiszcz 18 0 41964 1264 4 R 38 0.0 0:02.20 pine
> 3530 root 18 0 96240 3132 36 R 37 0.0 0:02.09 kdm_greet
> 2052 root 18 0 6080 112 4 R 37 0.0 0:02.00 hald-addon-stor
> 4479 war 17 0 18012 700 252 R 33 0.0 0:01.81 top
> 4480 war 19 0 6948m 6.8g 4 R 22 88.4 0:05.81 eatmem
> 2095 root 18 0 13128 216 8 R 10 0.0 0:00.50 dirmngr
> 2545 root 18 0 95788 2488 4 R 5 0.0 0:00.25 apache2
> 3564 war 18 0 41620 832 4 R 5 0.0 0:00.34 pine
> 2270 nut 15 0 12212 144 4 S 1 0.0 0:00.05 upsmon
> 561 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 xfsbufd
>
> Very simply program:
>
> #include <iostream>
> using namespace std;
>
> int main()
> {
> long int interations = 10000000;
> int counter = 1;
>
> for(counter;counter<interations;counter++)
> {
> double *d = new double[100];

You usually have to access the allocated memory, like:

*d = 1.0;

for it to actually be allocated (AFAIK).

> }
>
> return 0;
> }
>
> Any idea why the OOM killer can or does not kill it?

What are the values of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit* ?

See Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting .

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