Messages in this thread | | | From | Matthias Wolle <> | Subject | LowFree/LowMem problem | Date | Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:32:41 +0100 |
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Hi,
my company is running several servers with kernel 2.6.23.12. This are Dual Quad Core servers (CPU Intel) with 16GB RAM using a 32Bit kernel. After some days nicely running the oom killer killed our processes. Our research discovered that the free low memory was reduced to about 11MB. We found out that the decreasing of low memory is related to the count off executed and ended programs.
I could reproduce the same bug on a maschine with 2GB RAM without PAE (option 4GB HIGHMEM). The following code reproduces the bug.
#!/bin/sh
while [ true ]; do cat /proc/meminfo| grep LowFree done
Please run this script only on a test system. It reduces the low memory quite fast (within minutes).
The latest available kernel 2.6.24-rc8 is also affected.
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Thanks for reading
Matthias
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