On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Jeffrey Cao <jcao.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, I realize this. It seems that shell and its children, including my APP > when I run it on shell, cause this problem. So, no better way than to review > APP source code to figure out if there's memory leak. It should be a serous > memory leak on some exception condition since that as soon as I run APP the > oom-killer kicks in. time to use valgrind? anyway, AFAIK, the apps that are killed by OOM killer are not neccessarily the ones who allocate the most pages. It is the VMA size that matters most. regards, Mulyadi. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
