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Date:	Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:19:28 +0200
From:	Sven Joachim <svenjoac@....de>
To:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	werner <w.landgraf@...ru>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: v3.4-rc2 out-of-memory problems (was Re: 3.4-rc1 sticks-and-crashs)

On 2012-04-09 17:57 +0200, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On 04/09/2012 03:04 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> While I did not experience any crashes or instabilities (yet?), I'm also
>> seeing memory leaks.  On a system started this morning, with hardly
>> anything running:
>
>> where I would expect no more than 50 MB used, 400 MB are actually in use:
>>
>> ,----
>> | $ free
>> |              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>> | Mem:       3348400    1849712    1498688          0     328960    1119180
>> | -/+ buffers/cache:     401572    2946828
>> | Swap:      3719040          0    3719040
>> `----
>
> Do you see any big memory users in /proc/meminfo or in
> /proc/slabinfo?

Attaching these files, since I can't really make anything out of the
latter.  Note that I started a few memory hogs (X, Firefox, Emacs with
Gnus), so overall memory footprint has grown to 768 MB.


View attachment "meminfo" of type "text/plain" (986 bytes)

View attachment "slabinfo" of type "text/plain" (16730 bytes)

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