Re: [patch 0/7] improve memcg oom killer robustness v2

From: azurIt
Date: Wed Sep 04 2013 - 08:10:10 EST


>[...]
>> My script has just detected (and killed) another freezed cgroup. I
>> must say that i'm not 100% sure that cgroup was really freezed but it
>> has 99% or more memory usage for at least 30 seconds (well, or it has
>> 99% memory usage in both two cases the script was checking it). Here
>> are stacks of processes inside it before they were killed:
>[...]
>> pid: 26536
>> stack:
>> [<ffffffff81080a45>] refrigerator+0x95/0x160
>> [<ffffffff8106ac2b>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x1cb/0x540
>> [<ffffffff8100188b>] do_signal+0x6b/0x750
>> [<ffffffff81001fc5>] do_notify_resume+0x55/0x80
>> [<ffffffff815cb662>] retint_signal+0x3d/0x7b
>> [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
>
>[...]
>
>This task is sitting in the refigerator which means it has been frozen
>by the freezer cgroup most probably. I am not familiar with the
>implementation but my recollection is that you have to thaw that group
>in order the killed process can pass away.
>--
>Michal Hocko
>SUSE Labs
>



Yes, my script is freezing the cgroup before killing processes inside it. Stacks are taken after the freeze, it that problem?

azur
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