On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 at 11:58, Minchan Kim wrote: > But I wonder why VM can't reclaim the pages. As I see the log, there > are lots of slab pages(710M) in DMA zone while LRU pages are very > small. SLAB pages are things VM has a trouble to reclaim. I am not > sure 710M of SLAB is reasonable size. Don't you have experience same > problem in old kernel? No, I forgot to add 2.6.38 (and before) did not show that behaviour. > If you see the problem first in 2.6.39-rc4, maybe it would be a > regression(ex, might be slab memory leak) I would think so. I'll try to bisect, but with one compilation taking ~20min on this box, this might take a while. > Could you get the information about slabinfo(ex, cat /proc/slabinfo) > right before OOM happens. When it happens again, I'll try to get this. Thanks for replying, Christian. -- BOFH excuse #73: Daemons did it _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
