Re: [3.2-rc3] OOM killer doesn't kill the obvious memory hog

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 02:44:41PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 14:31:48 +1100
> Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
> 
> > So, it's a distro bug - sshd should never be started from from udev
> > context because of this inherited oom_score_adj thing.
> > Interestingly, the ifup ssh restart script says this:
> > 
> > # We'd like to use 'reload' here, but it has some problems; see #502444.
> > if [ -x /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d ]; then
> >         invoke-rc.d ssh restart >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
> > else
> >         /etc/init.d/ssh restart >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
> > fi
> > 
> > Bug 502444 describes the exact startup race condition that I've just
> > found. It does a ssh server restart because reload causes the sshd
> > server to fail to start if a start is currently in progress.  So,
> > rather than solving the start vs reload race condition, it got a
> > bandaid (use restart to restart sshd from the reload context) and
> > left it as a landmine.....
> > 
> 
> Thank you for chasing. 
> Hm, BTW, do you think this kind of tracepoint is useful for debugging ?
> This patch is just an example.

Definitely a good idea, because not all applications have logging
like sshd does.  Besides, the first thing I went looking for was
tracepoints. ;)

> 
> ==
> From ed565cbf842e0b30827fba7bfdbc724fe21d9d2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 14:10:51 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] oom_score_adj trace point.
> 
> oom_score_adj is set by some daemon and launch tasks ans inherited
> to applications, sometimes unexpectedly.
> 
> This patch is for debugging oom_score_adj inheritance. This
> adds trace points for oom_score_adj inheritance.
> 
>     bash-2501  [002]   448.860197: oom_score_adj_update: task 2501[bash] updates oom_score_adj=-1000
>     bash-2501  [002]   455.678190: oom_score_adj_inherited: new task 2527 inherited oom_score_adj -1000
>     ls-2527  [007]   455.678683: oom_score_task_rename: task 2527[bash] to [ls] oom_score_adj=-1000
>     bash-2501  [007]   461.632103: oom_score_adj_inherited: new task 2528 inherited oom_score_adj -1000
>     bash-2501  [007]   461.632335: oom_score_adj_inherited: new task 2529 inherited oom_score_adj -1000
>     ls-2528  [003]   461.632983: oom_score_task_rename: task 2528[bash] to [ls] oom_score_adj=-1000
>     less-2529  [005]   461.633086: oom_score_task_rename: task 2529[bash] to [less] oom_score_adj=-1000
>     bash-2501  [004]   474.888710: oom_score_adj_update: task 2501[bash] updates oom_score_adj=0
> 
> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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