From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: "Andy Chittenden" <AChittenden@bluearc.com>
Subject: Re: Out of Memory: Killed process 16498 (java).
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:41:53 +1100
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On Thursday 19 January 2006 20:40, Andy Chittenden wrote:
> > 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?

Heh, absolutely not. It was a shot in the dark anyway. Good luck.

Cheers,
Con
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