Re: cc1plus invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x280da, order=0, oom_adj=0

["Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com>]

Dave Korn wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>    
>> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:29:29 -0800 Justin Mattock<justinmattock@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Hello,
>>> I'm not sure how to handle this,
>>> while compiling firefox-3.6b1.source
>>> I get this with the default compiling options,
>>> as well as custom:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> active_anon:2360492kB inactive_anon:590196kB active_file:84kB
>>>        
>> 2.8GB of anonymous memory
>>
>>      
>>> [  532.942508] Free swap  = 0kB
>>> [  532.942510] Total swap = 431632kB
>>>        
>> 430MB of swap, all used up.
>>
>> That's a genuine OOM.  Something (presumably cc1plus) has consumed
>> waaaay too much memory, quite possibly leaked it.
>>
>> It would help if the oom-killer were to print some information about
>> the oom-killed process's memory footprint.
>>      
>
>    I would think that the quickest way to proceed would be to re-run the
> failing compile command under gdb at the command-line and see what it's doing
> when the oom killer signals it, wouldn't it?  Or turn up the swap until it
> doesn't get killed and see what info can be gleaned from the cc1(plus?)
> -fmem-report output.
>
>      cheers,
>        DaveK
>
>
>    
I can try, only issue I have is I don't
use a distro, so building anything requires me
to hand compile it(hopefully not difficult for gdb).

So give me some time on this and I'll see if I can get this up
and running, and add that patch to kernel then go from there.

Justin P. Mattock