Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263391AbUKZWwM (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2004 17:52:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263436AbUKZWs7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2004 17:48:59 -0500 Received: from mail.charite.de ([160.45.207.131]:33671 "EHLO mail.charite.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262831AbUKZWrY (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2004 17:47:24 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:47:22 +0100 From: Ralf Hildebrandt To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Out of memory, but no OOM Killer? (2.6.9-ac11) Message-ID: <20041126224722.GK30987@charite.de> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 8037 Lines: 107 rsync seems to want lots of memory, yet the OOM killer doesn't strike. Subsequently, that machine died an ugly death until delivered by a power-cycle. Why doesn't the OOM killer reap rsync? ... Nov 26 05:58:19 backup-in -- MARK -- Nov 26 06:02:04 backup-in kernel: rsync: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:02:04 backup-in kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Nov 26 06:02:04 backup-in kernel: rsync: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:02:04 backup-in kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Nov 26 06:02:08 backup-in kernel: rsync: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:02:08 backup-in kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Nov 26 06:02:08 backup-in kernel: rsync: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:02:08 backup-in kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Nov 26 06:02:08 backup-in kernel: rsync: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:02:08 backup-in kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Nov 26 06:02:08 backup-in kernel: rsync: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:02:08 backup-in kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Nov 26 06:02:08 backup-in kernel: rsync: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:02:08 backup-in kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Nov 26 06:02:08 backup-in kernel: rsync: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:02:08 backup-in kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Nov 26 06:02:08 backup-in kernel: rsync: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:02:08 backup-in kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Nov 26 06:02:08 backup-in kernel: rsync: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:02:08 backup-in kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Nov 26 06:02:17 backup-in kernel: printk: 32 messages suppressed. Nov 26 06:02:17 backup-in kernel: pdflush: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:02:17 backup-in kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Nov 26 06:02:17 backup-in kernel: pdflush: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:02:17 backup-in kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Nov 26 06:03:33 backup-in kernel: printk: 11 messages suppressed. Nov 26 06:03:33 backup-in kernel: pdflush: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:03:33 backup-in kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Nov 26 06:03:33 backup-in kernel: pdflush: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:03:33 backup-in kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Nov 26 06:03:33 backup-in kernel: pdflush: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:03:33 backup-in kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Nov 26 06:03:33 backup-in kernel: pdflush: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:03:33 backup-in kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Nov 26 06:03:33 backup-in kernel: pdflush: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:03:33 backup-in kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Nov 26 06:03:33 backup-in kernel: pdflush: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:03:33 backup-in kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Nov 26 06:03:33 backup-in kernel: pdflush: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:03:33 backup-in kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Nov 26 06:03:33 backup-in kernel: pdflush: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:03:33 backup-in kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: swapper: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [__alloc_pages+576/908] __alloc_pages+0x240/0x38c Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [__get_free_pages+24/49] __get_free_pages+0x18/0x31 Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [kmem_getpages+30/201] kmem_getpages+0x1e/0xc9 Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [cache_grow+188/390] cache_grow+0xbc/0x186 Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [cache_alloc_refill+468/532] cache_alloc_refill+0x1d4/0x214 Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [__kmalloc+122/124] __kmalloc+0x7a/0x7c Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [alloc_skb+83/252] alloc_skb+0x53/0xfc Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [pg0+545011501/1068684288] e1000_alloc_rx_buffers+0x47/0xe8 [e1000] Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [pg0+545010700/1068684288] e1000_clean_rx_irq+0x184/0x45e [e1000] Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [pg0+545010212/1068684288] e1000_clean_tx_irq+0x1a0/0x204 [e1000] Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [pg0+545009728/1068684288] e1000_intr+0x3e/0x82 [e1000] Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [handle_IRQ_event+60/110] handle_IRQ_event+0x3c/0x6e Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [do_IRQ+222/422] do_IRQ+0xde/0x1a6 Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: ======================= Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [common_interrupt+24/32] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20 Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [default_idle+0/44] default_idle+0x0/0x2c Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [default_idle+41/44] default_idle+0x29/0x2c Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [cpu_idle+46/60] cpu_idle+0x2e/0x3c Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [start_kernel+356/383] start_kernel+0x164/0x17f Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [unknown_bootoption+0/374] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x176 Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: swapper: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [__alloc_pages+576/908] __alloc_pages+0x240/0x38c Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [__get_free_pages+24/49] __get_free_pages+0x18/0x31 Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [kmem_getpages+30/201] kmem_getpages+0x1e/0xc9 Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [cache_grow+188/390] cache_grow+0xbc/0x186 Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [cache_alloc_refill+468/532] cache_alloc_refill+0x1d4/0x214 Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [__kmalloc+122/124] __kmalloc+0x7a/0x7c Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [alloc_skb+83/252] alloc_skb+0x53/0xfc Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [pg0+545011501/1068684288] e1000_alloc_rx_buffers+0x47/0xe8 [e1000] Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [pg0+545010700/1068684288] e1000_clean_rx_irq+0x184/0x45e [e1000] Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [pg0+545010212/1068684288] e1000_clean_tx_irq+0x1a0/0x204 [e1000] Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [pg0+545009728/1068684288] e1000_intr+0x3e/0x82 [e1000] Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [handle_IRQ_event+60/110] handle_IRQ_event+0x3c/0x6e Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [do_IRQ+222/422] do_IRQ+0xde/0x1a6 Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: ======================= Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [common_interrupt+24/32] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20 Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [default_idle+0/44] default_idle+0x0/0x2c Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [default_idle+41/44] default_idle+0x29/0x2c Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [cpu_idle+46/60] cpu_idle+0x2e/0x3c Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [start_kernel+356/383] start_kernel+0x164/0x17f Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: [unknown_bootoption+0/374] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x176 Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: klogd: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Nov 26 06:04:08 backup-in kernel: klogd: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 ... and it goes on like that for hours... -- Ralf Hildebrandt (i.A. des IT-Zentrum) Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de Charite - Universit?tsmedizin Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 Gemeinsame Einrichtung von FU- und HU-Berlin Fax. +49 (0)30-450 570-962 IT-Zentrum Standort CBF send no mail to spamtrap@charite.de - 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/