On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 08:47:48 -0300 Teresa e Junior <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello! > > Please, I need some attention or I may end up damaging my machine! > > I've been struggling for not few hours with memory leaks on this > machine. I'm running 2.6.32-5-686, and the problem is as follows: > > Some months ago, I have compiled kernel 2.6.33-2-686 without any > issues in this same machine. This week I have tried compiling > GNUzilla Icecat and the 2.6.35 kernel, but when compiling the kernel, > when it is just starting compiling, all real memory (2GB) fills, and > when beginning to swap, the machine becomes absolutely unresponsive. > With Icecat, it takes 15 minutes before this happens, and today I > tried leaving it working for almost 5 hours, unresponsive, before > killing the machine. > > I killed the machine almost 10 times this week with high I/O activity. > I've already tried changing vm.swapinness to 60, and > vm.overcommit_memory to 2, but nothing helps. Also disabled the > memlock available for audio applications, but nothing yet. Increased > my swap to 10GB, but nothing. > > So here goes the output of some commands: > > # sysctl -a | grep vm. | sort > error: permission denied on key 'net.ipv4.route.flush' > error: permission denied on key 'net.ipv6.route.flush' > vm.block_dump = 0 > vm.dirty_background_bytes = 0 > vm.dirty_background_ratio = 10 > vm.dirty_bytes = 0 > vm.dirty_expire_centisecs = 3000 > vm.dirty_ratio = 20 > vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs = 500 > vm.drop_caches = 0 > vm.highmem_is_dirtyable = 0 > vm.hugepages_treat_as_movable = 0 > vm.hugetlb_shm_group = 0 > vm.laptop_mode = 0 > vm.legacy_va_layout = 0 > vm.lowmem_reserve_ratio = 256 32 32 > vm.max_map_count = 65530 > vm.memory_failure_early_kill = 0 > vm.memory_failure_recovery = 1 > vm.min_free_kbytes = 3789 > vm.mmap_min_addr = 65536 > vm.nr_hugepages = 0 > vm.nr_overcommit_hugepages = 0 > vm.nr_pdflush_threads = 0 > vm.oom_dump_tasks = 0 > vm.oom_kill_allocating_task = 0 > vm.overcommit_memory = 0 > vm.overcommit_ratio = 50 > vm.page-cluster = 3 > vm.panic_on_oom = 0 > vm.percpu_pagelist_fraction = 0 > vm.scan_unevictable_pages = 0 > vm.stat_interval = 1 > vm.swappiness = 60 > vm.vdso_enabled = 1 > vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 100 > > $ ulimit -a > core file size (blocks, -c) 0 > data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited > scheduling priority (-e) 0 > file size (blocks, -f) unlimited > pending signals (-i) 16382 > max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64 > max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited > open files (-n) 1024 > pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 > POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 > real-time priority (-r) 0 > stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 > cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited > max user processes (-u) unlimited > virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited > file locks (-x) unlimited > > $ free -m > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 1987 437 1549 0 51 192 > -/+ buffers/cache: 193 1793 > Swap: 10240 0 10240 > > > Any help will be appreciated! > Teresa e Junior I have already solved this issue. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
