https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444597
User mszeredi@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444597#c33
Miklos Szeredi
This is definitely still present in beta 6 and sometimes when it happens RAM just disappears from my system. I have 4 GB of RAM and nothing but a gnome desktop with firefox running and the system is out of memory. Interestingly, when it started having problems the system was basically locked up in i/o until I was very slowly able to kill -9 firefox. I'm not sure what all the i/o was for as I didn't have any swap at that time. After creating a 1 GB swap file the system immediately dug into it although again I don't know what for:
This is interesting. The slabinfo might contain a few clues, the top three slab users are:
size-128 4899 8529210 128 30 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 190 284307 0
(1110M total)
Acpi-ParseExt 3 14115543 72 53 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 1 266331
(1040M total)
revoke_record 0 12968928 32 112 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 115794 0
(452M total) None of them are actually used much at the moment (active_objs vs. num_objs), and the VM hasn't yet gotten around to reclaiming those slab pages. But at one point in time it seems there were a huge number of allocations of these slab objects, which doesn't really look normal. We can't tell what the size-128 allocations are for. Acpi-ParseExt: Thomas, any idea what's this? revoke_record is some JBD thing. -- 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.