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

From: azurIt
Date: Thu Sep 05 2013 - 06:17:14 EST


>[...]
>> My script detected another freezed cgroup today, sending stacks. Is
>> there anything interesting?
>
>3 tasks are sleeping and waiting for somebody to take an action to
>resolve memcg OOM. The memcg oom killer is enabled for that group? If
>yes, which task has been selected to be killed? You can find that in oom
>report in dmesg.
>
>I can see a way how this might happen. If the killed task happened to
>allocate a memory while it is exiting then it would get to the oom
>condition again without freeing any memory so nobody waiting on the
>memcg_oom_waitq gets woken. We have a report like that:
>https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/31/94
>
>The issue got silent in the meantime so it is time to wake it up.
>It would be definitely good to see what happened in your case though.
>If any of the bellow tasks was the oom victim then it is very probable
>this is the same issue.

Here it is:
http://watchdog.sk/lkml/kern5.log

Processes were killed by my script at about 11:05:35.

azur
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