Re: OOM-killer too aggressive?

From: Marcelo Tosatti
Date: Sun Feb 26 2006 - 16:21:28 EST


On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 12:56:10PM -0800, Chris Largret wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 15:56 -0600, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 12:39:31PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> > > I think the big question is who used up all the DMA zone.. Surely not
> > > the floppy driver..
> >
> > The kernel text and data? "readelf -S vmlinux" output would be useful.
>
> $ readelf -S vmlinux
> There are 52 section headers, starting at offset 0x2548488:

<snip>

> [49] .shstrtab STRTAB 0000000000000000 02548212
> 0000000000000273 0000000000000000 0 0 1
> [50] .symtab SYMTAB 0000000000000000 02549188
> 00000000000b3898 0000000000000018 51 20791 8
> [51] .strtab STRTAB 0000000000000000 025fca20
> 0000000000096692 0000000000000000 0 0 1

More than 40MB, that should partially explain it...
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