Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:43:10 -0700 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: OOM-killer and strange RSS value in 3.9-rc7 |
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[Do not drop people from the CC please]
On Fri 19-04-13 10:33:45, Han Pingtian wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:55:14AM -0700, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > > What is the kernel that you are using and what config? > > > We are testing a alpha version of a enterprise linux which using a 3.7 > series kernel. On this 3.7 kernel we encountered the oom killer problem. So > we decide to see if the problem can be reproduced on 3.9-rc7. We > configured 3.9-rc7 by copying the enterprise linux's config file to > .config and then run 'make localmodconfig' and pressed enter to all the > questions. Then the oom problem is reproduced on the 3.9-rc7. > > But we also used the same method to config 3.9-rc7 on another company's > enterprise linux yesterday and found that the problem cannot be > reproduced there. So maybe the leak is caused by some userspace > applications?
No application should cause in-kernel mem leak. What is the difference in the two configs? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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