linux-kernel - Re: OOM killer firing on 2.6.18 and later during LTP runs

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Date:	Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:35:40 -0800
From:	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...igh.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Subject: Re: OOM killer firing on 2.6.18 and later during LTP runs

> The traces are a bit confusing, but I don't actually see anything wrong
> there.  The machine has used up all swap, has used up all memory and has
> correctly gone and killed things.  After that, there's free memory again.

Yeah, it's just a bit odd that it's always in the IO path. Makes me
suspect there's actually a bunch of pagecache in the box as well, but
maybe it's just coincidence, and the rest of the box really is full
of anon mem. I thought we dumped the alt-sysrq-m type stuff on an OOM
kill, but it seems not. maybe that's just not in mainline.

>> This doesn't seem to happen every run, unfortnately, only
>> intermittently, and we don't have much data before that, so
>> hard to tell how long it's been going on.
>>
>> Still happening on latest kernels.
>> http://test.kernel.org/abat/62445/debug/console.log
> 
> The same appears to have happened there too.  Although it does seem to have
> killed a lot more than it should have.
> 
> Has something changed in the configuration of that machine?  New LTP
> version?  Less swapsapce?

Difficult to tell, it's a fairly new box to the grid, so it seems to
have been doing that intermittently forever.

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