Re: 2.6.35-rc1 system oom, many processes killed but memory not free

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Fri Jun 25 2010 - 02:16:56 EST


> Yes I made a mistake setting up ramdisk too big, but not sure why it
> allowed me to set it up like that.

Sorry, I don't know the reason.

> I think after ramdisk used all the memory, even after unmounting then
> other processes still cannot use it.
> oom killer gets very aggressive but cannot fix problem.
>
> I have updated to rc3 and will test again on weekend. I will turn on
> mem leak checker, is there anything else i should configure?

Probably nothing.

Thanks.


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