https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=383039 Summary: OOMs on 16GB 32-bit SuSE 10.3 Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: i386 OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: bradley@heilbrun.org QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- On 16GB (or 32GB) hosts running 32-bit OpenSUSE 10.3, Low (NORMAL) memory always becomes exhausted, causing the OOM killer to kill off every process. Unfortunately, the low memory region is still exhausted afterwards. This happens on machines with almost no load. Time between boot and OOM suicide is anywhere between 1 day and 4 weeks. This does _not_ happen on identical hardware running SuSE 10.1. The difference in available low (NORMAL) memory between 10.1 and 10.3 is significant. 8GB hosts are not affected by this problem. Kernel is kernel-bigsmp. Let me know what data might help unearth the root cause. I've been unable to find what exactly is consuming the low memory, slabtop looks uninteresting to me. Attached is slabtop, meminfo and sysrq-m. Unfortunately I don't have 'ps' output, as the example host crashed. But the only userland processes left were agetty, mingetty and udevd. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.