Re: Memory leaks (Desperate help!)
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 08:47:48 -0300
Teresa e Junior <teresaejunior@gmail.com> 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.
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