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SubjectRe: Out of Memory: Killed process while 1 Gb is free
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:50:36AM -0400, Leonid Petrov wrote:
> Summary:
> "Out of Memory: Killed process" when more than 1 Gb of free memory
> is available.
>
> Description:
> My Linux-server after 2-10 days starts killing processes claiming
> that it is "Out of memory". Top does not show any processess which
> occupy more than several percent of memory. It always occur when
> the amount of available memory (1Gb) is about half of the total
> memory (2Gb). Killing a process does not help and the kernel
> continue mass murder till the state then it becomes non-operational.
> During agony vmstat showed that the occupied 1Gb of memory was used
> mainly by cache and buffers. Analazing kernel log I found 245 events
> for last 3 weeks. All events occured when anount of Normal memory
> was in the range [0,2052]Kb (and about 1Gb of free high memory).
> It did not occur before upgrade to 2.6.8.1. Out of memory events
> occured in both Hyperthreading enabled and Hyperthreading disabled
> mode.
>
> Keywords:
> Virtual memory managment

Hi,

There have been several changes in this area since 2.6.8.1, it
would be nice if you can repeat the tests with a recent -mm kernel
(where most of the changes are).

One information is that there are not many freeable pages in
the normal zone (active+inactive) lists:

DMA free:1904kB min:16kB low:32kB
high:48kB active:112kB inactive:0kB present:16384kB
Sep 30 08:53:22 lacerta kernel: protections[]: 8 476 732
Sep 30 08:53:22 lacerta kernel: Normal free:1512kB min:936kB low:1872kB
high:2808kB active:216kB inactive:436kB present:901120kB

For me it looks like you might be seeing a kernel memory leak (what else
could cause such condition?)

IIRC quite some kernel memory leaks have been fixed since 2.6.8.1
(cdrom driver, NFS, ...)

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