Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

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On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:37:09 +1100
Donald Douwsma <[email protected]> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:27:34 -0500 (EST) Justin Piszcz <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Why does copying an 18GB on a 74GB raptor raid1 cause the kernel to invoke 
> >> the OOM killer and kill all of my processes?
> > 
> > What's that?   Software raid or hardware raid?  If the latter, which driver?
> 
> I've hit this using local disk while testing xfs built against 2.6.20-rc4 (SMP x86_64)
> 
> dmesg follows, I'm not sure if anything in this is useful after the first event as our automated tests continued on
> after the failure.

This looks different.

> ...
>
> Mem-info:
> Node 0 DMA per-cpu:
> CPU    0: Hot: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0   Cold: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
> CPU    1: Hot: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0   Cold: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
> CPU    2: Hot: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0   Cold: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
> CPU    3: Hot: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0   Cold: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
> Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu:
> CPU    0: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  31   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  53
> CPU    1: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:   2   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  60
> CPU    2: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  20   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  47
> CPU    3: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  25   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  56
> Active:76 inactive:495856 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:3680 slab:9119 mapped:32 pagetables:637

No dirty pages, no pages under writeback.

> Node 0 DMA free:8036kB min:24kB low:28kB high:36kB active:0kB inactive:1856kB present:9376kB pages_scanned:3296
> all_unreclaimable? yes
> lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2003 2003
> Node 0 DMA32 free:6684kB min:5712kB low:7140kB high:8568kB active:304kB inactive:1981624kB present:2052068kB

Inactive list is filled.

> pages_scanned:4343329 all_unreclaimable? yes

We scanned our guts out and decided that nothing was reclaimable.

> No available memory (MPOL_BIND): kill process 3492 (hald) score 0 or a child
> No available memory (MPOL_BIND): kill process 7914 (top) score 0 or a child
> No available memory (MPOL_BIND): kill process 4166 (nscd) score 0 or a child
> No available memory (MPOL_BIND): kill process 17869 (xfs_repair) score 0 or a child

But in all cases a constrained memory policy was in use.
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