[Ocfs2-users] out of memory problem concerning 64-bits?

Sunil Mushran Sunil.Mushran at oracle.com
Mon Nov 13 15:47:20 PST 2006


Are you sure it is ocfs2 that is eating memory?

# egrep 'ocfs|dlm|size-256 |size-32 ' /proc/slabinfo
# cat /proc/fs/ocfs2_dlm/*/stat

Email the outputs.

Michał Wilkowski wrote:
> Hello,
> we are currently running in production the system based on Redhat 
> Enterprise Linux 4 Update 3, ver. 32-bits. We are periodically 
> encountering an OOM-killer problem. Problem was discussed in previous 
> posts.
>
> I have a question: does it concern only 32-bits systems or 64-bits as 
> well?
> On 32-bits system OCFS2 driver consumes Low Memory (only ~900 MB) and 
> therefore causes oom-kills. What about 64-bits systems? Does it 
> consume all memory available for system (in my case: 8 GB)  and 
> therefore it takes much longer to encounter oom-kills?
>
> It is a very important issue for me and a response would be greatly 
> appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Michal Wilkowski
>
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