Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:29:36 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: htejun@gmail.com, stable@kernel.org,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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       Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
       Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>, Gautham Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-stable causes oomkiller to be invoked
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 08:48:47PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 06:53:26PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 06:03:33PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> > > Hi Greg, Tejun,
> > > 
> > > The following script causes oomkiller to be invoked on my system here.
> > > 
> > > while echo; do cat /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded; done
> > > 
> > 
> >  while echo; do cat /sys/kernel/uevent_seqnum ; done;
> > 
> > causes oomkiller to be invoked on 2.6.22-stable, 2.6.23-stable and
> > 2.6.24-rc5 as well. It seems not be particularly related to any single
> > file in sysfs.
> > 
> 
> And on 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 as well.

How long do you have to run this?  I'm not seeing a problem here with
2.6.24-rc5 using SLUB, but I might not have run things long enough.

I ran slabinfo and don't see anything leaking either, do you?

thanks,

greg k-h
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