Re: Memory management issues with 2.4.4

From: Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed May 02 2001 - 14:27:41 EST


On Wed, 2 May 2001, Jorge Nerin wrote:

> Short version:
> Under very heavy thrashing (about four hours) the system either lockups
> or OOM handler kills a task even when there is swap space left.

First of all, please try to reproduce the problem with 2.4.5-pre1.

If it still happens with pre1, please show us the output of "cat
/proc/slabinfo" when the kernel is about to trigger the OOM killer.

Thanks.

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