From: Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andrea@suse.de
Subject: Re: lot of VM problem with 2.4.23
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 23:12:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031222211247.GL1455@niksula.cs.hut.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031222183554.GN6438@matchmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:35:54AM -0800, you [Mike Fedyk] wrote:
> >
> > I don't know if there is a kernel memory leak, since all user level
> > processes should be killed at that point, right? Unfortunately I didn't have
> > time to dig deeper, as the box is in (sort of) production.
>
> Maybe, it depends on your init scripts. Does your distribution do a kill -9
> of all processes before turning off swap?
(It's a 7.0 Red Hat).
It does
runcmd "Sending all processes the KILL signal..." /sbin/killall5 -9
before
[ -n "$SWAPS" ] && runcmd "Turning off swap: " swapoff $SWAPS
in /etc/rc6.d/S01reboot and I've seen the "Sending all processes the KILL
signal..." message appear before the memory freeing loop starts rolling.
-- v --
v@iki.fi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-22 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-21 0:14 Octave
2003-12-21 9:30 ` Peter Zaitsev
2003-12-21 14:37 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-21 15:03 ` Octave
2003-12-21 15:42 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-12-21 16:13 ` Octave
2003-12-21 18:45 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-21 19:14 ` Octave
2003-12-21 20:45 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-21 21:09 ` Octave
2003-12-21 22:23 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-12-22 7:03 ` Ville Herva
2003-12-22 18:35 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-22 21:12 ` Ville Herva [this message]
2003-12-22 22:52 ` Gene Heskett
2003-12-23 8:51 ` Ville Herva
2003-12-22 19:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-12-22 21:18 ` Ville Herva
2003-12-21 18:47 ` Octave
2003-12-21 18:59 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-12-21 23:43 ` Octave
2003-12-22 11:27 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-22 12:30 ` Octave
2003-12-22 15:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-12-23 22:59 ` Octave
2003-12-21 10:43 ` bert hubert
[not found] <14ZDV-1H1-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-12-21 13:53 ` Kristian
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