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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:48:49 +0300
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Subject: Re: SLUB 0:1 SLAB (OOM during massive parallel kernel builds)
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Hi,

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > cc1 invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1201d2, order=0, oomkilladj=0

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Regular Order 0 alloc .... but why is there no memory available , 
> reclaimed?

I am too wondering where all that memory is going. Logging /proc/meminfo 
and slabinfo -S (see Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c) every few minutes or 
so probably might help answering that question.

				Pekka