Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750890AbWASJkW (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:40:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751390AbWASJkW (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:40:22 -0500 Received: from usmimesweeper.bluearc.com ([63.203.197.133]:37382 "EHLO us-mimesweeper.terastack.bluearc.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750890AbWASJkW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:40:22 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: Out of Memory: Killed process 16498 (java). Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:40:19 -0000 Message-ID: <89E85E0168AD994693B574C80EDB9C2703555F9F@uk-email.terastack.bluearc.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Out of Memory: Killed process 16498 (java). Thread-Index: AcYc29M78xaJAt2sRtmwE/wyJdX18QAABtOQ From: "Andy Chittenden" To: "Con Kolivas" , "Andrew Morton" Cc: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 763 Lines: 23 > Are you using scsi? Someone just posted what looks to be a > scsi slab leak (Re: > scsi cmd slab leak? (Was Re: [ck] Anyone been having OOM > killer problems > lately?) that causes oom kills. Check your slabinfo for a large > scsi_cmd_cache. Not using scsi. Using ide and sata. The target for the dd command was an ide disk. # cat /proc/slabinfo | grep scsi scsi_cmd_cache 4 8 448 8 1 : tunables 54 27 0 : slabdata 1 1 0 Is that large? -- Andy, BlueArc Engineering - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/