Holger Eitzenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 11:34:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > - A skbuff_head_cache leak causes oom-killings. > > > > All of these only seem to affect a small minority of machines. > > Hi, > > I have searched for a description for the above mentioned bug report, > but havent found any. Can you tell me?
http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg06355.html > The reason why I am asking that I am facing a similar problem on > kernel 2.6.10. During performance tests (Intel XEON, SMP, PCI-X, > e1000, 2 - 4 Gig RAM) the machine was out of memory. > > Tests showed that LowFree went linearly down to a few megabytes, where > most of the memory was used in skb_head_cache and size-1024 slab > caches. These two summed up to ~270 MG, which was the reason for > that. > > /proc/net/tcp showed that most of the memory was stuck in the RX > queues of some processes (two processes with ~1000 sockets each). > > A look into /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_mem showed that that the values in > there were way to high. I hope that a reduction of these values will > help (not done yet). > Sounds different. Please test a more recent kernel and if the problem is still there, send a report to linux-kernel and cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Include the contents of /proc/meminfo and /proc/slabinfo. Thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
