linux-kernel - Re: OOM-killer and strange RSS value in 3.9-rc7

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Message-ID: <0000013e5645b356-09aa6796-0a95-40f1-8ec5-6e2e3d0c434f-000000@email.amazonses.com>
Date:	Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:50:08 +0000
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Han Pingtian <hanpt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, mhocko@...e.cz,
	penberg@...nel.org, rientjes@...gle.com, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: OOM-killer and strange RSS value in 3.9-rc7

On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, Han Pingtian wrote:

> and it is called so many times that the boot cannot be finished. So
> maybe the memory isn't freed even though __free_slab() get called?

Ok that suggests an issue with the page allocator then.
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