Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:41:13 +0900
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
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Cc: Chris Fowler <cfowler@outpostsentinel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Panic on OOM
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On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:31:16 -0400
Chris Fowler <cfowler@outpostsentinel.com> wrote:

> I'm running into a problem in 2.6.38 where the kernel is not doing what
> I'm expecting it to do.  I'm guessing that some things have changed and
> that is what it going on.
> 
> First,  The tune at boot:
> 
>         f.open("/proc/sys/vm/panic_on_oom", std::ios::out);
>         f << "1";
>         f.close();
> 
>         f.open("/proc/sys/kernel/panic", std::ios::out);
>         f << "10";
>         f.close();
> 
> I want the kernel to panic on out of memory.  I then want it to wait 10s
> before doing a reboot.
> 
> This program will consume all memory and make the box unresponsive
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> my @mem = ()
> while(1) {
>   push @mem, "########################";
> }
> 

Hmm, then, OOM-Killer wasn't invoked ?

> It does not take long to fill up 1G of space.  There is NO swap on this
> device and never will be.  I did notice that after a long period of time
> (I've not timed it) I finally do see a panic and I do see "rebooting in
> 10 seconds..." .  It does not reboot.
> 

In these month(after 2.6.38), there has been some discussion
that "oom-killer doesn't work enough or lru scan very slow" problem
in linux-mm list. (and some improvemetns have been done.)

Then, if you can post your 'test case' with precise description of
machine set up, we're glad.

> 
> I'm guessing that there are some tweaks or new behavior I just need to
> be aware of.
> 

What version of kernel did you used in previous setup ?

Thanks,
-Kame


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