Re: oom-killer works,but the memory cannot be freed

[Chungki woo <chungki.woo@gmail.com>]

Hi~ bill
There is no enough information about your problem.
Can you show me some logs like oom message and /proc/meminfo after oom?

2009/8/26 Bill Xie <bill790@gmail.com>:
> My harware is a mips-achitecture hand-hold device, runs 2.6.24.3 and qt.
> when an application program  opened a 3.2M pdf file, the memory was
> consuming continually, finally the "oom-killer" things happened, the
> applicaton was killed,
>  but the memory occupied by the application still can not be freed. Is
> there some methods

I want to know why you think like this.

> to do with this situation?
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Thanks.