Understanding memory fragmentation in Linux kernel

[Manish Katiyar]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2018, 10:28 PM Amit Agarwal <amit at amit-agarwal.co.in wrote:

> On 2018-12-31 06:22, Manish Katiyar wrote:
>
>
> How do you know it is because of memory ? If you have sufficient RAM then
> it should be able to allocate. Does you application fail with ENOMEM ?
> Without knowing the error code from application it's hard to suggest
> anything.
>
>
> There is no debugging enabled on site and there is nothing we can do now
> to enable it and it is happening in only one site. But from whatever logs I
> have, it is failing in calloc.
>
> I am not requesting help in resolving the issue with application (I will
> be able to debug that), but only need help in understanding the memory
> fragmentation part. ( I gave details of original problem so that I can
> explain what I am trying to understand and wh
>

Maybe you can try

echo m > /proc/sysrq-trigger


Or looking at /proc/buddyinfo



>
> --
> Thanks,
> -aka
>
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