Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262136AbVATMeN (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:34:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262137AbVATMeN (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:34:13 -0500 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:1188 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262136AbVATMeH (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:34:07 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:34:06 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: Linux Kernel Cc: Andrew Morton , Andrea Arcangeli Subject: oom killer gone nuts Message-ID: <20050120123402.GA4782@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2786 Lines: 61 Hi, Using current BK on my x86-64 workstation, it went completely nuts today killing tasks left and right with oodles of free memory available. Here's a little snippet from messages: Out of Memory: Killed process 2847 (screen). oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd1 DMA per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 Normal per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 HighMem per-cpu: empty Free pages: 529184kB (0kB HighMem) Active:19127 inactive:20440 dirty:92 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:132296 slab:3827 mapped:3503 pagetables:164 DMA free:4536kB min:60kB low:72kB high:88kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no protections[]: 0 0 0 Normal free:524648kB min:4028kB low:5032kB high:6040kB active:76508kB inactive:81760kB present:1031360kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no protections[]: 0 0 0 HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:160kB high:192kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no protections[]: 0 0 0 DMA: 556*4kB 155*8kB 65*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 4536kB Normal: 29800*4kB 25115*8kB 6953*16kB 1251*32kB 326*64kB 103*128kB 31*256kB 12*512kB 3*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 524648kB HighMem: empty Swap cache: add 59864, delete 55781, find 6188/8478, race 0+0 Out of Memory: Killed process 27326 (bash). oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd1 DMA per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 Normal per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 HighMem per-cpu: empty Free pages: 530472kB (0kB HighMem) Active:18861 inactive:20434 dirty:147 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:132618 slab:3836 mapped:2955 pagetables:144 DMA free:4536kB min:60kB low:72kB high:88kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no protections[]: 0 0 0 Normal free:525936kB min:4028kB low:5032kB high:6040kB active:75444kB inactive:81736kB present:1031360kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no protections[]: 0 0 0 HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:160kB high:192kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no protections[]: 0 0 0 DMA: 556*4kB 155*8kB 65*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 4536kB Normal: 30040*4kB 25124*8kB 6953*16kB 1255*32kB 328*64kB 103*128kB 31*256kB 12*512kB 3*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 525936kB HighMem: empty Swap cache: add 59864, delete 55781, find 6188/8478, race 0+0 -- Jens Axboe - 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/