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SubjectRe: oom-killer 2.6.8.1
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OK - I now have some additional info regarding the slapinfo/oom-killer issue.

As I wrote earlier this server is a storage server providing NFS storage to a
number of webservers - ondisk filesystem is xfs, kernel = 2.6.8.1. At 03:00
some logrotate scripts runs throug a lot of files. It appears that this is
what is using the slabs (see this graph, K = M, so max used slab is approx.
700M)

http://saaby.com/slabused.gif (values are from /proc/meminfo)

These are the values (from slabinfo, active_objs), which changed remarkably
from 03:00 to 06:00:

03:00: 06:00:
xfs_chashlist 91297 xfs_chashlist 151994
xfs_inode 243791 xfs_inode 586780
linvfs_icache 243791 linvfs_icache 586807
dentry_cache 196033 dentry_cache 430609

The server crashed every night at approx. 03:00 to 04:00 - until last night
where we changed:

vm.min_free_kbytes from default (approx. 900K) to vm.min_free_kbytes=32768
(32M)

This seems to solve the problem - Does this make any sense to you? - Or just
pure luck?

/Saaby

On Wednesday 18 August 2004 23:11, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 August 2004 16:05, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> >> Index: oom-2.6.8-rc1/mm/vmscan.c
> >> ===================================================================
> >> --- oom-2.6.8-rc1.orig/mm/vmscan.c 2004-07-14 06:17:13.876343912 -0700
> >> +++ oom-2.6.8-rc1/mm/vmscan.c 2004-07-14 06:22:15.986416200 -0700
> >> @@ -417,7 +417,8 @@
> >> goto keep_locked;
> >> if (!may_enter_fs)
> >> goto keep_locked;
> >> - if (laptop_mode && !sc->may_writepage)
> >> + if (laptop_mode && !sc->may_writepage &&
> >> + !PageSwapCache(page))
> >> goto keep_locked;
> >>
> >> /* Page is dirty, try to write it out here */
>
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 04:24:24PM +0200, Anders Saaby wrote:
> > laptop_mode is not set on this server <- :-)
> > - So I guess this is not relevant for my setup?
>
> Probably not. Please try to collect /proc/slabinfo snapshots while the
> system is still functional as it degrades.
>
>
> -- wli
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