Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760168AbYCETti (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:49:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755809AbYCETta (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:49:30 -0500 Received: from ns2.g-housing.de ([81.169.133.75]:58559 "EHLO mail.g-house.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755725AbYCETt3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:49:29 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:49:22 +0100 (CET) From: Christian Kujau X-X-Sender: evil@sheep.housecafe.de To: Pavel Machek cc: kernel list , "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc3: 34TB vmalloc total -- overflow in /proc/meminfo? In-Reply-To: <20080305090610.GA30024@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Message-ID: References: <20080305090610.GA30024@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1002 Lines: 33 On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: > CommitLimit: 4132360 kB > Committed_AS: 27684 kB > VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB > VmallocUsed: 18112 kB > VmallocChunk: 34359720115 kB out of curiosity: yesterday I've seen a box[0] with ~4 TB Committed_AS: CommitLimit: 3085152 kB Committed_AS: 4281048084 kB VmallocTotal: 118776 kB VmallocUsed: 13772 kB VmallocChunk: 103880 kB Since it's a rather old kernel (2.6.19.2), I just want to know: could this be related to what you've seen or this completely different (and Committed_AS is just this high because some st00pid app has allocated this much memory but not freed again)? Thanks, Christian. [0] amd64, 32bit kernel, 32bit userland, 4GB RAM -- BOFH excuse #101: Collapsed Backbone -- 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/