On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 08:23:19PM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote:
<snip>
> >
> Roger, thanks for the information.
>
> I'm using Update 4 kernels (2.4.21-27.ELsmp - This kernel have some
> mm / oom fixes) and don't have big problems when create large files,
> plus the server is a 32-bit machine.
>
> Neil said that the problem can be Low Memory and I think it too.
>
> I read the following message on the list:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112044530919567&w=4
>
> The problem seems like a I/O issue. Can I/O (like storage devices)
> consume a large amount of low memory? Neil also said that the kernel is
> trying to move lots of data to the disk and it's a module might require
> such large memory. Somebody know how can I identify what is using Low
> Memory on my system?
>
The best way I can think to do that is take a look at /proc/slabinfo. That will
likely give you a pointer to which area of code is eating up your memory.
> The older questions in the message are:
>
> The server has 16GB RAM and 16GB swap. When the OOM kill conditions
> happens, the system has ~6GB RAM used, ~10GB RAM cached and 16GB free swap.
> Is that indicate that the server can't allocate Low Memory and starts OOM
> conditions? Because the High Memory is OK, right?
>
Based on the sysrq-m info you posted it looks like due to fragmentation the
largest chunk of memory you can allocate is 2MB (perhaps less depending on
address space availability). If you can build a test kernel to do a show_state
rather than a show_mem at the beginning of oom_kil, then you should be able to
tell who is trying to do an allocation that leads to kswapd calling
out_of_memory.
> Thanks to all!
>
> Regards,
> Márcio
>
>
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