linux-kernel - Re: OOM kernel behaviour

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Message-Id: <20091202142900.5C64.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Wed,  2 Dec 2009 14:31:00 +0900 (JST)
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	davidjon@...ontk.org
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Miles <jon@...us.co.uk>,
	penberg@...helsinki.fi
Subject: Re: OOM kernel behaviour

> On 12/02/2009 09:59 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > Proprietary module is loaded.
> 
> That's the Broadcom wireless wl driver. It isn't causing the problem.
> 
> > 
> > Probably, some program in your system leaked memory.
> > 
> 
> Is there some way to find out? I tried to analyse top and ps output
> but there isn't anything that stands out.

just idea.
/proc/{pid}/smaps show what file is swapped out. usually, leaked page
is swapped because nobody touched it.



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