linux-kernel - Re: Problem: Out of memory after 2days with 2GB RAM

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Date:	Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:08:31 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	"Zdenek Kabelac" <zdenek.kabelac@...il.com>
Cc:	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	riel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: Problem: Out of memory after 2days with 2GB RAM

On Thursday, 12 of June 2008, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm attaching a trace where my machine has got into big troubles after
> 2 day usage and several successful suspend/resumes (this seems to be
> finally getting better now :))
> 
> It looks like while there was a huge amount of buffers and caches -
> system was unable to allocate few pages for kmalloc in iwl3945 driver
> after resume.
> 
> I've even tried to 3 > drop_cache  and reinsert iwl driver - but this
> had fatal results - machine died completely with blinking caps lock -
> and no oops in the log for this case:
> 
> This is the commit aab2545fdd6641b76af0ae96456c4ca9d1e50dad  for the
> 2.6.26-rc5 I've been in this case.

Is this a regression from 2.6.25, BTW?

Rafael
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