Re: Possible Bug in VM accounting (Committed_AS) on x86_64 architecture ?

2006-12-06 Thread Kunal Trivedi
Hi Alan, Sorry for late followup on this. I did found the problem. It was 32 bit binary running on 64 bit arch. Actually main kernel had fixed this problem in 2.6.14 (http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2fd4ef85e0db9ed75c98e13953257a967ea55e03) But appa

Re: Possible Bug in VM accounting (Committed_AS) on x86_64 architecture ?

2006-11-29 Thread Alan
> I have noticed that 64 bit machine with overcommit policy (as above) > starts giving problem within 3-4 weeks. To prove that I've written > small program. The older RHEL kernels had some cases that didn't quite account exactly but current ones ought to be right - for Centos I'd expect similar bu

Re: Possible Bug in VM accounting (Committed_AS) on x86_64 architecture ?

2006-11-29 Thread Kunal Trivedi
Hi, I am running into a problem and due to limited understanding unable to solve it... Problem: - On 64 bit machines (running linux 2.6.xx), Committed_AS grows over the period of time. Within 3-4 weeks system reaches a stage where further malloc() returns -ENOMEM. Test shows that just