On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 01:47, mindentropy <mindentropy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to allocate 512MB of RAM in my driver loaded as a module, but > the OOM killer starts killing all my processes. This machine has around 24GB > RAM and is a 8 core Xeon. The RAM is allocated in page size chunks (i.e. > 131072 chunks each of size PAGE_SIZE). mind to tell us, how do you allocate memory? kmalloc? furthermore, could you kindly paste the content of /proc/meminfo right before OOM kicks in? -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
