Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:50:41 +0000 | From | Vincent Sweeney <> | Subject | Re: More 2.4 memory usage wierdness? |
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Vincent Sweeney wrote: > > 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.
Maybe I should of also made it clear that is I run the same box with 2.2.18 I have no memory issues and swap is not used at all but when I run with 2.4.2 I suddenly see my memory usage increase over 300MB and my swap space maxes out.
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