On Thursday 08 Dec 2011 1:38:19 AM Mulyadi Santosa wrote: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 01:47, mindentropy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to allocate 512MB of RAM in my driver loaded as a module, > > but the OOM killer starts killing all my processes. This machine has > > around 24GB RAM and is a 8 core Xeon. The RAM is allocated in page size > > chunks (i.e. 131072 chunks each of size PAGE_SIZE). > > mind to tell us, how do you allocate memory? kmalloc? Via kmalloc.
> > furthermore, could you kindly paste the content of /proc/meminfo right > before OOM kicks in? Its kind of tough to do it as it happens so fast. I will try to write a script which polls. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
