Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:16:28 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: ZONE_NORMAL exhaustion (dcache slab) |
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>> My big NUMA box went OOM over the weekend and started killing things >> for no good reason (2.5.43-mm2). Probably running some background >> updatedb for locate thing, not doing any real work. >> >> meminfo: >> > > Looks like a plain dentry leak to me. Very weird. > > Did the machine recover and run normally?
Nope, kept OOMing and killing everything .
> Was it possible to force the dcache to shrink? (a cat /dev/hda1 > would do that nicely)
Well, I didn't try that, but even looking at man pages got oom killed, so I guess not ... were you looking at the cat /dev/hda1 to fill pagecache or something? I have 16Gb of highmem (pretty much all ununsed) so presumably that'd fill the highmem first (pagecache?)
> Is it reproducible?
Will try again. Presumably "find /" should do it? ;-)
M.
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