Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Jul 2005 19:45:55 -0300 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: oom-killings, but I'm not out of memory! |
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Hi Roy,
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 09:44:37PM -0500, Roy Keene wrote: > I think I'm having the same issue. > > I've 2 systems with 4GB of RAM and 2GB of swap that kill processes when > they get a lot of disk I/O. I've attached the full dmesg output which > includes portions where it killed stuff despite having massive amounts of > free memory.
What kernel version is that?
> oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0 > Mem-info: > DMA per-cpu: > cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 > cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 > cpu 1 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 > cpu 1 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 > cpu 2 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 > cpu 2 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 > cpu 3 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 > cpu 3 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 > Normal per-cpu: > cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 > cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 > cpu 1 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 > cpu 1 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 > cpu 2 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 > cpu 2 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 > cpu 3 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 > cpu 3 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 > HighMem per-cpu: > cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 > cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 > cpu 1 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 > cpu 1 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 > cpu 2 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 > cpu 2 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 > cpu 3 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 > cpu 3 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 > > Free pages: 14304kB (1664kB HighMem) > Active:7971 inactive:994335 dirty:327523 writeback:25721 unstable:0 free:3576 slab:29113 mapped:7996 pagetables:341
There are about 100M of writeout data onflight - I suppose thats too much.
Guess: can you switch to another IO scheduler than CFQ or reduce its queue size?
IIRC you can do that by reducing /sys/block/device/queue/nr_requests.
> DMA free:12640kB min:16kB low:32kB high:48kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:877 all_unreclaimable? yes > protections[]: 0 0 0 > > Normal free:0kB min:928kB low:1856kB high:2784kB active:0kB inactive:739100kB present:901120kB pages_scanned:1556742 all_unreclaimable? yes > protections[]: 0 0 0
You've got no reservations for the normal zone either.
How does /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio looks like?
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