Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:07:02 -0700 (PDT) | From | Mahmood Naderan <> | Subject | Re: running of out memory => kernel crash |
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>The default behavior is to kill all eligible and unkillable threads until >there are none left to sacrifice (i.e. all kthreads and OOM_DISABLE). In a simple test with virtualbox, I reduced the amount of ram to 300MB. Then I ran "swapoff -a" and opened some applications. I noticed that the free spaces is kept around 2-3MB and "kswapd" is running. Also I saw that disk activity was very high. That mean although "swap" partition is turned off, "kswapd" was trying to do something. I wonder how that behavior can be explained?
>Ok, so you don't have a /proc/pid/oom_score_adj, so you're using a kernel >that predates 2.6.36. Yes, the srv machine that I posted those results, has kernel before 2.6.36
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----- Original Message ----- From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> To: Mahmood Naderan <nt_mahmood@yahoo.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>; ""linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org"" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 8:39 AM Subject: Re: running of out memory => kernel crash
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
> >If you're using cpusets or mempolicies, you must ensure that all tasks > >attached to either of them are not set to OOM_DISABLE. It seems unlikely > >that you're using those, so it seems like a system-wide oom condition. > > I didn't do that manually. What is the default behaviour? Does oom > working or not? >
The default behavior is to kill all eligible and unkillable threads until there are none left to sacrifice (i.e. all kthreads and OOM_DISABLE).
> For a user process: > > root@srv:~# cat /proc/18564/oom_score > 9198 > root@srv:~# cat /proc/18564/oom_adj > 0 >
Ok, so you don't have a /proc/pid/oom_score_adj, so you're using a kernel that predates 2.6.36.
> And for "init" process: > > root@srv:~# cat /proc/1/oom_score > 17509 > root@srv:~# cat /proc/1/oom_adj > 0 > > Based on my understandings, in an out of memory condition (oom), > the init process is more eligible to be killed!!!!!!! Is that right? >
init is exempt from oom killing, it's oom_score is meaningless.
> Again I didn't get my answer yet: > What is the default behavior of linux in an oom condition? If the default is, > crash (kernel panic), then how can I change that in such a way to kill > the hungry process? >
You either have /proc/sys/vm/panic_on_oom set or it's killing a thread that is taking down the entire machine. If it's the latter, then please capture the kernel log and post it as Randy suggested. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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