linux-kernel - Re: v3.4-rc2 out-of-memory problems (was Re: 3.4-rc1 sticks-and-crashs)

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Date:	Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:57:33 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Sven Joachim <svenjoac@....de>
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 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?

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