On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Josef Bacik wrote: > Um well yeah, I'm rewriting a chunk of btrfs which was rapantly leaking memory > so the OOM just couldn't keep up with how much I was sucking down. This is > strictly a developer is doing something stupid and needs help pointing out what > it is sort of moment, not a day to day OOM. > If you're debugging new kernel code and you realize that excessive amount of memory is being consumed so that nothing can even fork, you may want to try cat /proc/slabinfo before you get into that condition the next time around, although I already suspect that you know the cache you're leaking. It doesn't mean we need to add hundreds of lines of code to the kernel. Try kmemleak. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>