Problem with OOM killer killing process even when there is plenty of RAM.

[Mulyadi Santosa]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 01:47, mindentropy <mindentropy at gmail.com> 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?

furthermore, could you kindly paste the content of /proc/meminfo right
before OOM kicks in?

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Mulyadi Santosa
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