Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757394Ab3DPLAY (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:00:24 -0400 Received: from e7.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.137]:59017 "EHLO e7.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756482Ab3DPLAW (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:00:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:00:10 +0800 From: Han Pingtian To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: OOM-killer and strange RSS value in 3.9-rc7 Message-ID: <20130416110009.GA2664@localhost.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-TM-AS-MML: No X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 13041611-5806-0000-0000-000020BF070A Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2115 Lines: 59 Hi list, On a power7 system, we have installed 3.9-rc7 and crash 6.1.6. If I run something like "make -j 64" to compile linux kernel from source, sooner or latter, oom-killer will be triggered. Before that, when I trying to analyse the live system with crash, some processes' %MEM and RSS looks too big: ======================================== GNU gdb (GDB) 7.3.1 Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu"... crash: read error: kernel virtual address: c00000000074ee38 type: "cpu_possible_mask" crash: this kernel may be configured with CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM, which renders /dev/mem unusable as a live memory source. crash: trying /proc/kcore as an alternative to /dev/mem KERNEL: /boot/vmlinux-3.9.0-rc7 DUMPFILE: /proc/kcore CPUS: 80 DATE: Tue Apr 16 05:51:11 2013 UPTIME: 00:44:42 LOAD AVERAGE: 0.15, 0.53, 3.43 TASKS: 876 NODENAME: riblp3.upt.austin.ibm.com RELEASE: 3.9.0-rc7 VERSION: #1 SMP Tue Apr 16 03:14:32 CDT 2013 MACHINE: ppc64 (unknown Mhz) MEMORY: 4 GB PID: 9086 COMMAND: "crash" TASK: c0000000c3640000 [THREAD_INFO: c0000000d7900000] CPU: 52 STATE: TASK_RUNNING (ACTIVE) crash> ps -u rpc.idmapd PID PPID CPU TASK ST %MEM VSZ RSS COMM 1823 1 1 c0000000a66c0000 IN 281474976710656.0 5312 18014398509480192 rpc.idmapd crash> ======================================== I'd like to ask if this a problem of the kernel or crash. Thanks in advance. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/