Re: OOM-killer going crazy.

[Nick Piggin]

Ed Sweetman wrote:
> Nick Piggin wrote:

> > OK so it does sound like a different problem.
> >
> > I didn't follow your other thread closely... does /proc/slabinfo
> > show any evidence of a leak?
>
>
>
> Surprisingly no. You'd think that since the kernel is responsible for 
> saying what memory can't be touched or swapped out it would have some 
> sort of tag on the huge 600MB of ram I currently can't do anything with 
> since i burned that audio cd but slabinfo doesn't seem to show anything 
> about it. Maybe i'm reading it wrong.

It could be memory coming straight out of the page allocator that
isn't being freed.

Jens, any ideas?
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