From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752148AbZH1H0r (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:26:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751794AbZH1H0q (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:26:46 -0400 Received: from mail-vw0-f195.google.com ([209.85.212.195]:62670 "EHLO mail-vw0-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752110AbZH1H0q (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:26:46 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=WO6J3g1aY1IFsqE4c50Z+jX+yRp4TEHeBwHwCngkpdnRflRoadQW8r1PFWU3IntkTB IvbwHU6y4IRbZjvYlKPdvGI+VAZW5p7cQ9lzBHoektg1nVJjErnUlNKvJxzAOpd2Blx1 tMJAlhjdgJGpq13mKTYn+CIFaae10AE0OEFoU= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <30c949580908272349u20145192ydfec4b1950ae7b23@mail.gmail.com> References: <30c949580908251825n59da4bceg77c464eca01f0c46@mail.gmail.com> <18eba5a10908252208p791288e3mc28f6aaf8306948f@mail.gmail.com> <30c949580908272349u20145192ydfec4b1950ae7b23@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:26:47 +0800 Message-ID: <30c949580908280026i7407cdahbdcead91573fbfb8@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: oom-killer works,but the memory cannot be freed From: Bill Xie To: Chungki woo Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=0016364994e55ace4d04722e9bb3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --0016364994e55ace4d04722e9bb3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable and the oom killer message attached. It seems when at this situation, echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches , cannot release the memory occupied by the application. On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Bill Xie wrote: > hi, woo > > =A0thanks for your replay. > > cat /proc/meminfo > MemTotal: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A060288 kB > MemFree: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A05100 kB > Buffers: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 8 kB > Cached: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A025600 kB > SwapCached: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A00 kB > Active: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A021836 kB > Inactive: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A015448 kB > SwapTotal: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 0 kB > SwapFree: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A00 kB > Dirty: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 0 kB > Writeback: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 0 kB > AnonPages: =A0 =A0 =A0 11740 kB > Mapped: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 1668 kB > Slab: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 2532 kB > SReclaimable: =A0 =A0 =A0308 kB > SUnreclaim: =A0 =A0 =A0 2224 kB > PageTables: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0164 kB > NFS_Unstable: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A00 kB > Bounce: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A00 kB > CommitLimit: =A0 =A0 30144 kB > Committed_AS: =A0 =A015656 kB > VmallocTotal: =A01048404 kB > VmallocUsed: =A0 =A0 =A09700 kB > VmallocChunk: =A01038704 kB > 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