Re: 2.6.8-r1 mem issues

[Jeff V. Merkey]

Max,

I reported the same problem. There is a patch that gets around this, 
however, it does
Ooops in some situations in free_pages if you are using split address space
AND low memory conditions. Nick Piggin has the patch.

Jeff


Max Michaels wrote:

> This is my first post, so please be forgiving of any faux-pas. I am
> having issues with 2.6.8-r1 with memory being eaten by the kernel. Top
> reveals that only about 35% of the memory (3GB) is being used but the
> actual count of free memory is only about 10MB. /proc/slabinfo shows no
> odd numbers and /proc/meminfo shows the same 10MB as the top total. No
> processes account for this memory, so I'm assuming it must be the
> kernel. Eventually, I run out of memory and OOM-killer starts killing
> processes until it has some memory. Is there some troubleshooting method
> I am missing or is this a known issue?
>
>  

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