Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261366AbVAWW2c (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Jan 2005 17:28:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261367AbVAWW2c (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Jan 2005 17:28:32 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:54155 "EHLO fire-1.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261366AbVAWW20 (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Jan 2005 17:28:26 -0500 Message-ID: <41F42329.8020808@osdl.org> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:20:25 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bryce Harrington CC: Chris Wright , dev@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.11-rc1/2 goes Postal on LTP References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2218 Lines: 62 Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Chris Wright wrote: > >>* Bryce Harrington (bryce@osdl.org) wrote: >> >>>Well, I'm not having much luck. strace isn't installed on the system >>>(and is giving errors when trying to compile it). Also, the ssh session >>>(and sshd) quits whenever I try running the following growfiles command >>>manually, so I'm having trouble replicating the kernel panic manually. >> >>Sounds very much like oom killer gone nuts. >> >> >>># growfiles -W gf14 -b -e 1 -u -i 0 -L 20 -w -l -C 1 -T 10 glseek19 glseek19.2 >>> >>>Anyway, if anyone wants to investigate this further, I can provide >>>access to the machine (email me). Otherwise, I'm probably just going to >>>wait for -rc2 and see if the problem's still there. >> >>Wait no longer, it's here ;-) > > > Hmm, still the kernel is going nutso. LTP and everything else on the > system is getting killed, including the test manager process. > > Below's a bit more info scraped from the console. This is from a run on > RH 9.0. It looks like LTP got through 722 of its 2270 tests before the > kernel goes postal on it. This time it got through all the growfile > commands before it died (see bottom of this post), however it looks like > the same growfile cmd I reported earlier is the one causing the problem. > > When I run: > > mkfifo gffifo18; > strace growfiles -b -W gf13 -e 1 -u -i 0 -L 30 -I r -r 1-4096 gffifo18 &> /tmp/growfiles_strace_log.txt > > The following happens: > > * I get this strace log: http://developer.osdl.org/bryce/growfiles_strace_log.txt > * The ssh session dies and returns to login prompt > * A bunch of stuff similar to below is spewed to console > > Bryce > > > Console > ======= > ...snip... > Memory: 905212k/917504k available (2211k kernel code, 11840k reserved, > 871k data, 192k init, 0k highmem) > ...snip... Yes, about the same for me on P4-UP with 1 GB RAM (home PC :). No X running, just console and some daemons. -- ~Randy - 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/