Re: Found the commit that causes the OOMs

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Tue Jun 30 2009 - 22:52:09 EST


> > > What is "hidden" anon pages?
> > > each shrink_{in}active_list isolate 32 pages from lru. it mean anon or file lru
> > > accounting decrease temporary.
> > >
> > > if system have plenty thread or process, heavy memory pressure makes
> > > #-of-thread x 32pages isolation.
> > >
> > > msgctl11 makes >10K processes.
> >
> > More exactly, ~16K processes:
> >
> > msgctl11 0 INFO : Using upto 16298 pids
> >
> > So the maximum number of isolated pages is 16K * 32 = 512K, or 2GiB.
> >
> > > I have debugging patch for this case.
> > > Wu, Can you please try this patch?
> >
> > OK. But the OOM is not quite reproducible. Sometimes it produces these
> > messages:
>
> This time I got the OOM: there are 69817 isolated pages (just as expected)!
>
(snip)

> [ 1522.019259] Active_anon:11 active_file:6 inactive_anon:0
> [ 1522.019260] inactive_file:0 unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
> [ 1522.019261] free:1985 slab:44399 mapped:132 pagetables:61830 bounce:0
> [ 1522.019262] isolate:69817

OK. thanks.
I plan to submit this patch after small more tests. it is useful for OOM analysis.




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