Re: oom-killings, but I'm not out of memory!

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Howdy,

	Roy Keene
	Planning Systems Inc.

On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:


Hi Roy,

On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 09:44:37PM -0500, Roy Keene wrote:
I think I'm having the same issue.

I've 2 systems with 4GB of RAM and 2GB of swap that kill processes when
they get a lot of disk I/O.  I've attached the full dmesg output which
includes portions where it killed stuff despite having massive amounts of
free memory.

What kernel version is that?


Linux cog2 2.6.9-11.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri May 20 18:26:27 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0
Mem-info:
DMA per-cpu:
cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
cpu 1 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
cpu 1 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
cpu 2 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
cpu 2 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
cpu 3 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
cpu 3 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
Normal per-cpu:
cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
cpu 1 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
cpu 1 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
cpu 2 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
cpu 2 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
cpu 3 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
cpu 3 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
HighMem per-cpu:
cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
cpu 1 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
cpu 1 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
cpu 2 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
cpu 2 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
cpu 3 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
cpu 3 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16

Free pages:       14304kB (1664kB HighMem)
Active:7971 inactive:994335 dirty:327523 writeback:25721 unstable:0 free:3576 slab:29113 mapped:7996 pagetables:341

There are about 100M of writeout data onflight - I suppose thats too much.

Guess: can you switch to another IO scheduler than CFQ or reduce its queue size?

IIRC you can do that by reducing /sys/block/device/queue/nr_requests.


For all the devices I use this is set to 8192

I set "sda" to 512 now.

[root@cog2 ~]# cat /sys/block/{sda,nbd0,nbd1}/queue/nr_requests
8192
8192
8192


DMA free:12640kB min:16kB low:32kB high:48kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:877 all_unreclaimable? yes
protections[]: 0 0 0

Normal free:0kB min:928kB low:1856kB high:2784kB active:0kB inactive:739100kB present:901120kB pages_scanned:1556742 all_unreclaimable? yes
protections[]: 0 0 0

You've got no reservations for the normal zone either.

How does /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio looks like?



It looks like it doesn't exist..
[root@cog2 ~]# ls /proc/sys/vm
block_dump dirty_ratio laptop_mode max_map_count nr_pdflush_threads page-cluster dirty_background_ratio dirty_writeback_centisecs legacy_va_layout min_free_kbytes overcommit_memory swappiness dirty_expire_centisecs hugetlb_shm_group lower_zone_protection nr_hugepages overcommit_ratio vfs_cache_pressure
[root@cog2 ~]#
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