From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com.br>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:53:14 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43318FFA.4010706@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <433189B5.3030308@nortel.com>
On Marcelo's suggestion, I modified the oom killer code to dump the
stack. The dmesg output of the first process being killed is as follows:
oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0
[<c0137701>] out_of_memory+0x51/0xb0
[<c0138888>] __alloc_pages+0x3d8/0x3f0
[<c01388bb>] __get_free_pages+0x1b/0x40
[<c013bbc2>] kmem_getpages+0x22/0xb0
[<c013c7d9>] cache_grow+0xa9/0x170
[<c013ca4d>] cache_alloc_refill+0x1ad/0x1f0
[<c013cc78>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x38/0x40
[<c01655f1>] d_alloc+0x21/0x170
[<c015b15d>] cached_lookup+0x7d/0x90
[<c015c53d>] __lookup_hash+0x8d/0xe0
[<c015c5ad>] lookup_hash+0x1d/0x30
[<c015e737>] sys_rename+0x137/0x230
[<c01106e0>] recalc_task_prio+0xc0/0x1c0
[<c010250d>] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x75
DMA per-cpu:
cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
cpu 0 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
HighMem per-cpu:
cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
Free pages: 2484556kB (2480576kB HighMem)
Active:1787 inactive:419 dirty:2 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:621139
slab:217642 mapped:1511 pagetables:102
DMA free:68kB min:68kB low:84kB high:100kB active:0kB inactive:0kB
present:16384kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? yes
protections[]: 0 0 0
Normal free:3912kB min:3756kB low:4692kB high:5632kB active:0kB
inactive:0kB present:901120kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
protections[]: 0 0 0
HighMem free:2480576kB min:512kB low:640kB high:768kB active:7148kB
inactive:1676kB present:3276800kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
protections[]: 0 0 0
DMA: 1*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB
0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 68kB
Normal: 2*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB
1*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3912kB
HighMem: 244*4kB 116*8kB 73*16kB 66*32kB 44*64kB 25*128kB 16*256kB
3*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 601*4096kB = 2480576kB
Out of Memory: Killed process 595 (portmap).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-21 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-21 16:26 dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 16:53 ` Christopher Friesen [this message]
2005-09-21 19:46 ` dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- also seen on 2.6.14-rc2 Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 20:07 ` Sonny Rao
2005-09-21 20:27 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 20:49 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 20:59 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 20:58 ` Sonny Rao
2005-09-21 21:00 ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-09-21 21:14 ` Al Viro
2005-09-21 21:14 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-09-21 21:25 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 21:29 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 21:25 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 22:03 ` Roland Dreier
2005-09-22 3:11 ` Al Viro
2005-09-22 3:54 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-22 4:17 ` Al Viro
2005-09-22 14:47 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-22 15:16 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-22 18:12 ` dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- new data point Christopher Friesen
2005-09-22 18:27 ` dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- also seen on 2.6.14-rc2 Dipankar Sarma
2005-09-22 19:03 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-22 19:18 ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-09-22 21:37 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-22 21:44 ` Sonny Rao
2005-09-22 21:55 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-22 22:04 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-09-26 4:43 ` [PATCH/RFC] sysrq: updating console_loglevel Randy.Dunlap
2005-09-22 22:05 ` dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- also seen on 2.6.14-rc2 Christopher Friesen
2005-10-04 19:43 ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-10-04 20:02 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-10-05 4:00 ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-09-30 22:03 ` dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory Christopher Friesen
2005-10-01 23:22 ` Marcelo
2005-10-02 6:04 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-10-02 19:55 ` Marcelo
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