More 2.4 memory usage wierdness?

From: Vincent Sweeney (v.sweeney@dexterus.com)
Date: Thu Mar 22 2001 - 07:19:47 EST


I have a question regarding a busy box I recently updated to
'2.4.2-ac20'. It has been running for several hours without any real
problems until I started getting 'dmesg' entries like:

Out of Memory: Killed process 30293 (httpd).
Out of Memory: Killed process 32552 (mysqld).

Not a quick check with 'top' shows:

Mem: 771440K av, 396060K used, 375380K free, 0K shrd, 4972K
buff
Swap: 379416K av, 345000K used, 34416K free 337128K
cached

I have also attached my "/proc/meminfo" & "/proc/slabinfo" details.

Basically they all show the server has 370MB of free physical memory but
its using lots of swap space and OOM is killing processes.

What gives?

Vince.

-- 
Vincent Sweeney
System Architect



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