Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755713AbXK0DvU (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:51:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754145AbXK0DvM (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:51:12 -0500 Received: from bay0-omc3-s28.bay0.hotmail.com ([65.54.246.228]:55085 "EHLO bay0-omc3-s28.bay0.hotmail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754099AbXK0DvL (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:51:11 -0500 Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: [130.13.252.143] X-Originating-Email: [joshin@hotmail.com] From: "Josh Goldsmith" To: Subject: Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:50:54 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Nov 2007 03:51:10.0652 (UTC) FILETIME=[BF8F07C0:01C830A8] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2431 Lines: 53 >When you untar, which filesystem do you untar too? I've untarred it to Ext3, Ext2, and Reiser filesystems. I've been fighting with this for a while. I did manage to get it to happen again doing a recursive chmod after untarring the kernel (I stopped the untar a few times to let the system catch up). Interesting output below. -J top - 17:58:03 up 3:08, 1 user, load average: 3.54, 4.09, 4.08 Tasks: 53 total, 2 running, 51 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 2.1%us, 11.4%sy, 0.6%ni, 0.0%id, 81.4%wa, 2.7%hi, 1.8%si, 0.0%st Mem: 30352k total, 28252k used, 2100k free, 19448k buffers Swap: 465876k total, 15736k used, 450140k free, 1072k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1357 root 30 15 1568 168 88 R 8.1 0.6 0:07.87 chmod 168 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 3.1 0.0 6:39.25 usb-storage 1353 root 15 0 2408 540 400 R 2.2 1.8 0:14.29 top 989 root 15 0 3600 292 192 S 1.2 1.0 0:37.81 sshd 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.6 0.0 2:14.65 ksoftirqd/0 56 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:23.85 pdflush 58 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:54.70 kswapd0 950 root 15 0 3128 108 64 S 0.3 0.4 0:13.88 ntpd 1 root 16 0 1440 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:10.40 init 3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 events/0 4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 khelper 5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread 38 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 kblockd/0 41 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 khubd 57 root 15 0 0 0 0 D 0.0 0.0 0:20.29 pdflush And the first of the oom-killer syslog messages: ntpd invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x200d2, order=0, oomkilladj=0 Mem-info: DMA per-cpu: CPU 0: Hot: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 sshd invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0, oomkilladj=0 Active:2816 inactive:2778 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:179 slab:858 mapped:1 pagetables:93 bounce:0 - 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/