On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:03:16 +0200 (CEST)
Roman Zippel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> > So I have two boxes that are very similar.
> > Both have 2GB of RAM & 1GB of swap space.
> > One has a 2.8GHz CPU, the other a 2.93GHz CPU, both dualcore.
> >
> > The slower box survives a 'make -j bzImage' of a 2.6.18 kernel tree
> > without incident. (Although it takes ~4 minutes longer than a -j2)
> >
> > The faster box goes absolutely nuts, oomkilling everything in sight,
> > until eventually after about 10 minutes, the box locks up dead,
> > and won't even respond to pings.
> >
> > Oh, the only other difference - the slower box has 1 disk, whereas the
> > faster box has two in RAID0. I'm not surprised that stuff is getting
> > oom-killed given the pathological scenario, but the fact that the
> > box never recovered at all is a little odd. Does md lack some means
> > of dealing with low memory scenarios ?
>
> I think I see the same thing on the other end on slow machines, here it
> only takes a single compile job, which doesn't quite fit into memory and
> another task (like top) which occasionally wakes up and tries to allocate
> memory and then kills the compile job - that's very annoying.
>
> AFAICT the basic problem is that "did_some_progress" in __alloc_pages() is
> rather local information, other processes can still make progress and keep
> this process from making progress, which gets grumpy and starts killing.
> What's happing here is that most memory is either mapped or in the swap
> cache, so we have a race between processes trying to free memory from the
> cache and processes mapping memory back into their address space.
Kernel versions please, guys. There have been a lot of oom-killer changes
post-2.6.18.
> If someone wants to play with the problem, the example program below
> triggers the problem relatively easily (booting with only little ram
> helps), it starts a number of readers, which should touch a bit more
> memory than is available and a few writers, which occasionally allocate
> memory.
>
How much ram, how much swap?
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