Re: oom-killer works,but the memory cannot be freed

From: Chungki woo
Date: Wed Aug 26 2009 - 01:09:00 EST


Hi~ bill
There is no enough information about your problem.
Can you show me some logs like oom message and /proc/meminfo after oom?

2009/8/26 Bill Xie <bill790@xxxxxxxxx>:
> My harware is a mips-achitecture hand-hold device, runs 2.6.24.3 and qt.
> when an application program Âopened a 3.2M pdf file, the memory was
> consuming continually, finally the "oom-killer" things happened, the
> applicaton was killed,
> Âbut the memory occupied by the application still can not be freed. Is
> there some methods

I want to know why you think like this.

> to do with this situation?
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Thanks.
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