On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 14:14 +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote: > present:2068480kB So, ~2GB available. > mlocked:4452kB > unevictable:4452kB writeback:0kB mapped:3684kB shmem:0kB > slab_reclaimable:1778388kB > slab_unreclaimable:188388kB kernel_stack:4016kB pagetables:2232kB > unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:542 > all_unreclaimable? yes Plus about 1.8GB of unreclaimable slab. all_unreclaimable is set. So, you reclaimed all of the user memory that you could get and swapped out what could have been swapped out. What was left was slab. This OOM looks proper to me. What was eating all of your slab? -- Dave -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>