Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:50:23 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, stable@kernel.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 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:46:37 +0530 Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 12:54:09AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Dhaval Giani wrote:
> > > XXX sysfs_page_cnt=1
> > 
> > Hmm.. so, sysfs r/w buffer wasn't the culprit.  I'm curious what eats up
> > all your low memory.  Please do the following.
> > 
> > 1. Right after boot, record /proc/meminfo and slabinfo.
> > 
> > 2. After or near OOM, record /proc/meminfo and slabinfo.  This can be
> > tricky but if your machine reliably OOMs after 10mins, run it for 9mins
> > and capturing the result should show enough.
> > 
> 
> Attached. The results are after oom, but i think about a min or so after
> that. I missed the oom point.

Looking back at your original oom-killer output: something has consumed all
your ZONE_NORMAL memory and we cannot tell what it is.

Please run 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 again (with CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER=y) and take a peek
at the changelog in
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc5/2.6.24-rc5-mm1/broken-out/page-owner-tracking-leak-detector.patch.

Build up Documentation/page_owner.c then cause the leak to happen then
execute page_owner.

Thanks.
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