Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 27 Nov 2004 01:33:53 +0100 | | From | Ralf Hildebrandt <> | | Subject | Re: Out of memory, but no OOM Killer? (2.6.9-ac11) |
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* Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>:
> This could be the problem where fragmented memory causes atomic higher > order allocations to fail, for which there is a fix in -mm, which should > make its way into 2.6.11.
I see. rsync requested a big chunk of memory, but failed due to the fragmentation of free memory? my "sar" output shows lots of free memory and lots of unused swap:
03:55:01 kbmemfree kbmemused %memused kbbuffers kbcached kbswpfree kbswpused %swpused kbswpcad 04:55:01 2852 512048 99.45 2340 466792 2008084 0 0.00 0 05:05:02 2328 512572 99.55 500 467884 2008084 0 0.00 0 05:15:02 2008 512892 99.61 536 468664 2008084 0 0.00 0 05:25:01 31152 483748 93.95 1804 436728 2008084 0 0.00 0 05:35:01 4056 510844 99.21 5668 452856 2008084 0 0.00 0 05:45:01 129908 384992 74.77 836 305232 2008084 0 0.00 0 05:55:02 2376 512524 99.54 444 464200 2008084 0 0.00 0 06:05:02 1952 512948 99.62 608 465736 2008084 0 0.00 0 06:15:02 1576 513324 99.69 424 465580 2008084 0 0.00 0
for reference: Nov 26 05:58:19 backup-in -- MARK -- Nov 26 06:02:04 backup-in kernel: rsync: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20
> Also, the increased atomic memory reserves in current 2.6-bk should > alleviate the problem.
2.4.27 doesn't seem to expose the problem either
> As a temporary workaround, you can increase /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes
# cat /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes 724
I increased that to 7240 now.
> BTW. what does `free` say when the allocation failures are happening?
see sar output above.
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