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* OOM Killer killing whole system
@ 2006-01-15 15:05 Anton Titov
  2006-01-20 12:11 ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread
From: Anton Titov @ 2006-01-15 15:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

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Yesterday I accidently noticed few OOM killer messages in the system log
and leaved a console tailing the log for the night. In 6 in the morning
OOM killer got mad generating 500 lines in the log and 5 minutes later
system closed the ssh connection and became inresponsive. The guy in the
datacenter told me that when he attached keyboard even caps lock was not
working. Inspite of this the system still was responsive (only to) ping.

The strange thing is this machine is relatively light loaded - now after
6 hours being up free shows:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers    cached
Mem:       2075468    1148564     926904          0     123472    314516
-/+ buffers/cache:     710576    1364892
Swap:      1004020          0    1004020

Load average stays under 0.5 most of the time. In 6 in the morning it
should be almost no load (there is no crons scheduled at that time).

I'm attaching messages from the log and my .config.

Anton Titov

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* Re: OOM Killer killing whole system
@ 2006-01-23 12:55 Nicolas Mailhot
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 22+ messages in thread
From: Nicolas Mailhot @ 2006-01-23 12:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: kalin, chase.venters, axboe, arjan, akpm, James.Bottomley,
	a.titov, davej, jgarzik

Chase Venters wrote :
> Just a shot in the dark, but in the last few kernel revisions have you
> experienced any SATA problems with DMA timeouts, in some versions
leading to
> a hang?

Like this for example ?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177951
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5914

Jens Axboe wrote :
> Just a note - you seem to have the raid1 in common with the rest of the
> reporters so far.

This is a sata x86-64 raid1 system too.
With recent git kernels raid goes half-dead at boot, with FS corruption.

I think I also managed to have it OOM a few weeks ago (2.6.15 or
pre-2.6.15) which is quite a feat for a 2-GiB desktop (didn't report it at
the time, possible culprits where either ivtv of massive IO - I
shuffled/processed ~10 GiB of picture data from SATA CDs and then all
around the FS). The memory was unreclaimable, didn't know to check for
slab at the time. (also when I did use ivtv it generated some fat mpeg2
files)
The new corrupting problem is whith kernels without ivtv (I only build it
for kernels which boot fine)

All the kernels are un-tainted (only patches are davej ones and in one
case v4l+ivtv)

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot


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2006-01-15 15:05 OOM Killer killing whole system Anton Titov
2006-01-20 12:11 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-20 20:04   ` Chase Venters
2006-01-20 21:48     ` Anton Titov
2006-01-20 22:50       ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-21  0:09         ` Anton Titov
2006-01-21  0:19         ` Chase Venters
2006-01-21  0:50           ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-21  1:17             ` James Bottomley
2006-01-21  3:29               ` Anton Titov
2006-01-21  3:44                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-25 22:20                 ` Matthias Urlichs
2006-01-21  3:45               ` Anton Titov
2006-01-21  3:53                 ` Chase Venters
2006-01-21  4:21                   ` Anton Titov
2006-01-21  4:35                     ` Chase Venters
2006-01-23  2:56                       ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2006-01-23  3:28                         ` Chase Venters
2006-01-23  8:39           ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-23  8:41             ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-23  9:10               ` Chase Venters
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