Re: Cached memory never gets released

[Doug McNaught]

David Ashley <dash@xxxxxxx> writes:

> There is some new information that might be useful. The cache memory
> lower limit seems to be going up by 1 or 2 megabytes whenever the kernel
> kills the XFree86 process:
> Jun 23 11:20:16 __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> Jun 23 11:20:16 VM: killing process XFree86
>
> Could it be when the kernel kills a process for trying to use up too much
> memory, the pages used by the process get left in some locked state so can
> never be reused?
>
> This is the sort of behaviour we're seeing, it is very reproduceable.
>
>
> Note this is kernel 2.4.23.

Have you tried a kernel that's less than 8 months old?  2.4.26 is current.

-Doug
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