From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: ZONE_NORMAL exhaustion (dcache slab)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:16:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <308170000.1035234988@flay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DB46DFA.DFEB2907@digeo.com>
>> My big NUMA box went OOM over the weekend and started killing things
>> for no good reason (2.5.43-mm2). Probably running some background
>> updatedb for locate thing, not doing any real work.
>>
>> meminfo:
>>
>
> Looks like a plain dentry leak to me. Very weird.
>
> Did the machine recover and run normally?
Nope, kept OOMing and killing everything .
> Was it possible to force the dcache to shrink? (a cat /dev/hda1
> would do that nicely)
Well, I didn't try that, but even looking at man pages got oom killed,
so I guess not ... were you looking at the cat /dev/hda1 to fill pagecache
or something? I have 16Gb of highmem (pretty much all ununsed) so
presumably that'd fill the highmem first (pagecache?)
> Is it reproducible?
Will try again. Presumably "find /" should do it? ;-)
M.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-21 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-21 20:40 Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-21 21:13 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-21 21:16 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2002-10-21 21:33 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-21 21:33 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-21 21:49 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-21 22:30 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-21 22:53 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 0:31 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22 3:39 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 3:53 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22 4:20 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 5:49 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22 6:21 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 16:13 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-24 11:35 ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-10-24 14:28 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22 16:33 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-22 17:05 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 16:21 ` Dipankar Sarma
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