linux-kernel - Re: oom-killer works,but the memory cannot be freed

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Date:	Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:26:47 +0800
From:	Bill Xie <bill790@...il.com>
To:	Chungki woo <chungki.woo@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: oom-killer works,but the memory cannot be freed

and the oom killer message attached.  It seems when at this situation,

echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches , cannot release the memory occupied
by the application.



On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Bill Xie<bill790@...il.com> wrote:
> hi, woo
>
>  thanks for your replay.
>
> cat /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal:        60288 kB
> MemFree:          5100 kB
> Buffers:             8 kB
> Cached:          25600 kB
> SwapCached:          0 kB
> Active:          21836 kB
> Inactive:        15448 kB
> SwapTotal:           0 kB
> SwapFree:            0 kB
> Dirty:               0 kB
> Writeback:           0 kB
> AnonPages:       11740 kB
> Mapped:           1668 kB
> Slab:             2532 kB
> SReclaimable:      308 kB
> SUnreclaim:       2224 kB
> PageTables:        164 kB
> NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
> Bounce:              0 kB
> CommitLimit:     30144 kB
> Committed_AS:    15656 kB
> VmallocTotal:  1048404 kB
> VmallocUsed:      9700 kB
> VmallocChunk:  1038704 kB
>

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