Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750772AbVITViA (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:38:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750770AbVITViA (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:38:00 -0400 Received: from zctfs063.nortelnetworks.com ([47.164.128.120]:31724 "EHLO zctfs063.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750772AbVITVh7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:37:59 -0400 Message-ID: <43308131.5040104@nortel.com> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:37:53 -0600 From: "Christopher Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: help interpreting oom-killer output Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Sep 2005 21:37:54.0696 (UTC) FILETIME=[8F4C9880:01C5BE2B] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1837 Lines: 50 I'm running a modified 2.6.10 on an x86 uniprocessor system. I keep having processes killed by the oom killer at the same place while running LTP. The system has gigs of memory, so I find this kind of odd. Could someone help me interpret the oom-killer output? The first log looks like this. oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0 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: cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 Free pages: 2473820kB (2468096kB HighMem) Active:2831 inactive:393 dirty:2 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:618551 slab:215125 mapped:1760 pagetables:107 DMA free:68kB min:68kB low:84kB high:100kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? yes protections[]: 0 0 0 Normal free:7832kB min:3756kB low:4692kB high:5632kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:901120kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no protections[]: 0 0 0 HighMem free:2468096kB min:512kB low:640kB high:768kB active:11324kB inactive:1572kB present:3276800kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no protections[]: 0 0 0 DMA: 1*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 68kB Normal: 10*4kB 8*8kB 13*16kB 1*32kB 5*64kB 1*128kB 7*256kB 3*512kB 2*1024kB 2*2048kB 0*4096kB = 10264kB HighMem: 376*4kB 364*8kB 292*16kB 136*32kB 96*64kB 61*128kB 30*256kB 20*512kB 18*1024kB 16*2048kB 579*4096kB = 2468096kB Out of Memory: Killed process 17664 (bash). Thanks, Chris - 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/