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

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Date:	Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:57:11 +0200
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	Han Pingtian <hanpt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, penberg@...nel.org,
	rientjes@...gle.com, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: OOM-killer and strange RSS value in 3.9-rc7

On Mon 29-04-13 14:50:08, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> 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.

You seem to have CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM enabled. Do you see the same issue
when this is disabled? The kmem accounting should be disabled unless a
specific limit is set but it would be better to know that this is not
the factor.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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