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Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:53:05 +0100
From:	Claude Frantz <r31dmaeu@...312a.rz.unibw-muenchen.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: OOM-killer invoked but why ?

Hello !

I'm faced to a problem where the OOM-killer is invoked but I cannot find
the reason why. The machine is rather powerfull, the load is very moderate,
the disk swap space is nearly unused. The only strange observation which
appears to me is the slow but progressive decreasing of kbbuffers during
many hours.

Can you help me to diagnose the problem and to find a good solution ?

Thanks a lot !

Claude


kernel: 2.6.22.14-72.fc6 (Fedora 6)

"sar -r" output:

12:00:01 AM kbmemfree kbmemused  %memused kbbuffers  kbcached kbswpfree kbswpused  %swpused  kbswpcad
12:10:01 AM   1739920   1635056     48.45      9368    135620   8192960       148      0.00         0
12:20:01 AM   1691180   1683796     49.89      8644    162992   8192960       148      0.00         0
12:30:01 AM   1732076   1642900     48.68      8608    141168   8192960       148      0.00         0
12:40:01 AM   1766308   1608668     47.66      8128    134744   8192960       148      0.00         0
12:50:01 AM   1718156   1656820     49.09      6884    134288   8192960       148      0.00         0
01:00:01 AM   1728448   1646528     48.79      6476    137912   8192960       148      0.00         0
01:10:01 AM   1707652   1667324     49.40      5792    156572   8192960       148      0.00         0
01:20:01 AM   1736928   1638048     48.54      6368    138872   8192960       148      0.00         0
01:30:02 AM   1776288   1598688     47.37      5412    145136   8192960       148      0.00         0
01:40:01 AM   1780456   1594520     47.25      5464    150536   8192960       148      0.00         0
01:50:01 AM   1744856   1630120     48.30      4960    154732   8192960       148      0.00         0
02:00:02 AM   1687012   1687964     50.01      3996    171048   8192960       148      0.00         0
02:10:01 AM   1696020   1678956     49.75      3916    145424   8192960       148      0.00         0
02:20:02 AM   1740864   1634112     48.42      4340    142900   8192960       148      0.00         0
02:30:01 AM   1769460   1605516     47.57      3516    138056   8192960       148      0.00         0
02:40:02 AM   1764376   1610600     47.72      3184    138844   8192960       148      0.00         0
02:50:02 AM   1702100   1672876     49.57      3736    157448   8192960       148      0.00         0
03:00:01 AM   1750396   1624580     48.14      3556    141016   8192960       148      0.00         0
03:10:02 AM   1744168   1630808     48.32      1900    136612   8192960       148      0.00         0
03:20:01 AM   1749388   1625588     48.17      1012    136804   8192960       148      0.00         0
03:30:01 AM   1728028   1646948     48.80      1980    139104   8192960       148      0.00         0
03:40:01 AM   1718596   1656380     49.08      1136    156932   8192960       148      0.00         0
03:50:02 AM   1692684   1682292     49.85       768    140808   8192960       148      0.00         0
~~~~~~ OOM-killer in action. Then reboot.
07:30:01 AM   2134568   1240408     36.75    233624    506224   8193108         0      0.00         0
07:40:01 AM   2104412   1270564     37.65    252204    524220   8193108         0      0.00         0
07:50:01 AM   2049712   1325264     39.27    265368    527096   8193108         0      0.00         0
08:00:01 AM   1813652   1561324     46.26    281708    527296   8193108         0      0.00         0

The values in /proc/sys/vm :

/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
0
/proc/sys/vm/panic_on_oom
0
/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio
50
/proc/sys/vm/page-cluster
3
/proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio
5
/proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
10
/proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
499
/proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs
2999
/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads
2
/proc/sys/vm/swappiness
60
/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
0
/proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group
0
/proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio
256     32
/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
0
/proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes
3816
/proc/sys/vm/percpu_pagelist_fraction
0
/proc/sys/vm/max_map_count
65536
/proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
0
/proc/sys/vm/block_dump
0
/proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure
100
/proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout
0
/proc/sys/vm/stat_interval
1
/proc/sys/vm/vdso_enabled
1

The syslog extract: 

Jan 28 03:50:24 toaster kernel: ps invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oomkilladj=0
Jan 28 03:50:24 toaster kernel:  [<c045cf52>] out_of_memory+0x69/0x1a7
Jan 28 03:50:24 toaster kernel:  [<c045e3bb>] __alloc_pages+0x216/0x2a0
Jan 28 03:50:24 toaster kernel:  [<c04a6f1e>] proc_info_read+0x0/0x9d
Jan 28 03:50:24 toaster kernel:  [<c045e471>] __get_free_pages+0x2c/0x3a
Jan 28 03:50:24 toaster kernel:  [<c04a6f57>] proc_info_read+0x39/0x9d
Jan 28 03:50:24 toaster kernel:  [<c04a6f1e>] proc_info_read+0x0/0x9d
Jan 28 03:50:24 toaster kernel:  [<c0477dda>] vfs_read+0xa6/0x158
Jan 28 03:50:24 toaster kernel:  [<c0478238>] sys_read+0x41/0x67
Jan 28 03:50:24 toaster kernel:  [<c0404fa2>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Jan 28 03:50:24 toaster kernel:  =======================
Jan 28 03:50:24 toaster kernel: Mem-info:
Jan 28 03:50:24 toaster kernel: DMA per-cpu:
Jan 28 03:50:35 toaster xinetd[3182]: START: time-dgram pid=0 from=137.193.74.3
Jan 28 03:50:48 toaster kernel: CPU    0: Hot: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0   Cold: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
Jan 28 03:50:48 toaster kernel: CPU    1: Hot: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0   Cold: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
Jan 28 03:50:48 toaster kernel: CPU    2: Hot: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0   Cold: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
Jan 28 03:50:48 toaster kernel: CPU    3: Hot: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0   Cold: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
Jan 28 03:50:48 toaster kernel: Normal per-cpu:
Jan 28 03:50:48 toaster kernel: CPU    0: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  58   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  60
Jan 28 03:50:48 toaster kernel: CPU    1: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  34   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  60
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: CPU    2: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  42   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  52
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: CPU    3: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  85   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  51
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: HighMem per-cpu:
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: CPU    0: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 176   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:   9
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: CPU    1: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  57   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  14
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: CPU    2: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 143   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  11
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: CPU    3: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  55   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:   0
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: Active:186294 inactive:2340 dirty:6 writeback:55 unstable:0
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel:  free:431675 slab:177466 mapped:7100 pagetables:1915 bounce:0
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: DMA free:3544kB min:68kB low:84kB high:100kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:16256kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? yes
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 873 3285
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: Normal free:3684kB min:3744kB low:4680kB high:5616kB active:212kB inactive:112kB present:894080kB pages_scanned:365 all_unreclaimable? yes
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 19300
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: HighMem free:1719472kB min:512kB low:3100kB high:5688kB active:744964kB inactive:9248kB present:2470404kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: DMA: 3*4kB 4*8kB 3*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3548kB
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: Normal: 30*4kB 29*8kB 8*16kB 1*32kB 3*64kB 5*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3904kB
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: HighMem: 5991*4kB 8849*8kB 18804*16kB 12622*32kB 7820*64kB 2500*128kB 354*256kB 15*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1719332kB
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: Swap cache: add 37, delete 37, find 0/0, race 0+0
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: Free swap  = 8192960kB
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: Total swap = 8193108kB
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: Free swap:       8192960kB
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: 851840 pages of RAM
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: 622464 pages of HIGHMEM
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: 8096 reserved pages
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: 638310 pages shared
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: 0 pages swap cached
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: 6 pages dirty
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: 55 pages writeback
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: 7100 pages mapped
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: 177466 pages slab
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: 1915 pages pagetables
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: Out of memory: kill process 10859 (amavisd) score 36218 or a child
Jan 28 03:50:49 toaster kernel: Killed process 19146 (amavisd)

from "lspci":

SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 08)
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