Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936157Ab3DPUQp (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:16:45 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f51.google.com ([209.85.220.51]:41995 "EHLO mail-pa0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934781Ab3DPUQo (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:16:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:16:42 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes X-X-Sender: rientjes@chino.kir.corp.google.com To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: OOM-killer and strange RSS value in 3.9-rc7 In-Reply-To: <20130416110009.GA2664@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <20130416110009.GA2664@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 854 Lines: 20 On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, Han Pingtian wrote: > 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: > Do you have the oom killer log from /var/log/messages with /proc/sys/vm/oom_dump_tasks enabled? Have you tried to reproduce this issue with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM and CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC enabled (you may even want to consider CONFIG_KMEMLEAK)? -- 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/