Re: Out of memory on 3.5 kernels

[Arend van Spriel]

On 09/20/2012 09:32 AM, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Hey David,
>
> David Rientjes [Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:54:54PM -0700]:
> > >On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> > >
> > > > >for some time the slab usage is quite high (~3.2 GiB) and whenever I try
> > > > >to do a backup with ccollect (which is using rsync), a lot of processes
> > > > >(like chromium) are being killed over night.
> > > > >
> > >
> > >Yeah, over 81% of your memory is consumed by slab and that doesn't shrink
> > >over the duration of the log you posted.  It would be interesting to see
> > >if there was a leak somewhere: try looking at slabtop and determining if
> > >you have a cache using an egregious amount of memory;
> I already had to reboot, because no now process was starting / only
> starting extremly slowly.

Hi Nico,

Being curious (and suspicious) over here. Are you doing the rsync over 
wireless interface using brcmsmac? I am currently looking at bugzilla 
#47721 (see [1]) and maybe this is related.

Gr. AvS

[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47721

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