On Thursday 08 Dec 2011 1:38:19 AM Mulyadi Santosa wrote:

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 01:47, mindentropy [off-list ref] wrote:

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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?

Via kmalloc. 

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

Its kind of tough to do it as it happens so fast. I will try to write a script 
which polls.