Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757326Ab1DYICt (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2011 04:02:49 -0400 Received: from trent.utfs.org ([194.246.123.103]:38919 "EHLO trent.utfs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751498Ab1DYICq (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2011 04:02:46 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 01:02:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Christian Kujau To: Dave Chinner cc: LKML , xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: 2.6.39-rc4+: oom-killer busy killing tasks In-Reply-To: <20110424234655.GC12436@dastard> Message-ID: References: <20110424234655.GC12436@dastard> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-AV-Checked: ClamAV using ClamSMTP (127.0.0.1) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1408 Lines: 39 On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 at 09:46, Dave Chinner wrote: > BTW, what are your mount options? If it is the problem I suspect it > is, then using noatime with stop it from occurring.... When mounted with noatime, running du(1) accross the XFS volume still triggered the OOM killer, but the backtrace looked somewhat different this time: date invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x84d0, order=0, oom_adj=0, oom_score_adj=0 Call Trace: [ecda5c70] [c0009ce4] show_stack+0x70/0x1bc (unreliable) [ecda5cb0] [c008f508] T.528+0x74/0x1cc [ecda5d00] [c008f734] T.526+0xd4/0x2a0 [ecda5d40] [c008fb7c] out_of_memory+0x27c/0x360 [ecda5d90] [c0093b3c] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x6f8/0x708 [ecda5e30] [c0017e9c] pte_alloc_one+0x30/0x90 [ecda5e40] [c00a9464] __pte_alloc+0x2c/0x100 [ecda5e60] [c00a95a8] handle_mm_fault+0x70/0x110 [ecda5e90] [c0016d78] do_page_fault+0x358/0x504 [ecda5f40] [c0012938] handle_page_fault+0xc/0x80 --- Exception: 401 at 0xffdd5e0 LR = 0xffd8a04 Full dmesg & slabinfo & more on: http://nerdbynature.de/bits/2.6.39-rc4/oom/ (slabinfo-5.txt.bz2, messages-5.txt) Christian. -- BOFH excuse #176: vapors from evaporating sticky-note adhesives -- 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/