Hi all,
I'm seeing a strange behaviour on a dual opteron machine (or, at least it seem
so to me) and I need some advice.
The hardware is: dual opteron 2.4, dual core, 2GB ram
This machine runs apache webserver/mod_perl. Due to some bug in perl code,
often the machine runs out of memory, and oomkiller triggers.
Nothing wrong in this, but while this happens the machine freezes: no activity
is possible, it only answers to "ping" packets and to sysreq commands. Even
the console login freezes.
The only possible recovery is to reboot the machine. I've tried, to collect
more information, to reduce the swap space from 2Gb to 200Mb, and in fact the
lockup happens more often.
It seems to me that when the kernel runs out of memory (swap+phys), it is
unable to recover in any way, even if the oomkiller removes a good deal of
memory hog processes.
Maybe this is the usual behaviour, but I'm a little bit perplexed.
I've used netconsole to collect more data, and I'm attaching a sysreq-t output
obtained during the "lockup" phase. Thanks to Andrea for some useful hints on
how to use netconsole facility :)
Let me know if you need more information, or if this a "no issue" situation :)
the sysreq log file can be found at this url:
http://members.ferrara.linux.it/cova/sysreq.log
Speaking of netconsole, I've been able to collect information from sysreq, but
no boot messages are sent over the network; only when the userland comes up I
can see messages on the remote machines. As anyone some hints about this?
Thanks.
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Ferrara Linux Users Group http://ferrara.linux.it
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