Question

OOM killer strikes

Asked by: medent

Hi,
I have a Centos linux 4.5 server loaded with 64G of Memory, and the Oom killer has kicked on a few times while there seems to be plenty of free mem , at least from what TOP shows.  Not sure what it is running low on and how I can adjust...?

Here is a snip from messages during an OOM condtion:
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: Mem-info:
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: DMA per-cpu:
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 1 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 1 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 2 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 2 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 3 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 3 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 4 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 4 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 5 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 5 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 6 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 6 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 7 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 7 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: Normal per-cpu:
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 1 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 1 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 2 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 2 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 3 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 3 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 4 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 4 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 5 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 5 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 6 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 6 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 7 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 7 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: HighMem per-cpu:
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 1 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 1 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 2 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 2 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 3 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 3 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 4 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 4 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 5 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 5 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 6 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 6 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 7 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: cpu 7 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel:
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: Free pages:    15134404kB (15117568kB HighMem)
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: Active:6802704 inactive:5932559 dirty:1 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:3783601 slab:82688 mapped:1420230 pagetables:32180
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: DMA free:13124kB min:64kB low:128kB high:192kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:20566 all_unreclaimable? yes
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: Normal free:3712kB min:3728kB low:7456kB high:11184kB active:792kB inactive:452kB present:901120kB pages_scanned:1719 all_unreclaimable? yes
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: HighMem free:15117568kB min:512kB low:1024kB high:1536kB active:27210024kB inactive:23729784kB present:68288512kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: DMA: 1*4kB 2*8kB 5*16kB 3*32kB 4*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 3*4096kB = 13124kB
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: Normal: 0*4kB 2*8kB 13*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3712kB
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: HighMem: 58*4kB 19*8kB 34*16kB 43*32kB 28*64kB 15542*128kB 19468*256kB 8287*512kB 2436*1024kB 675*2048kB 5*4096kB = 15117568kB
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: Swap cache: add 22177, delete 21910, find 7904/9381, race 0+0
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: 0 bounce buffer pages
Feb 18 15:05:54 fox kernel: Free swap:       2093728kB
Feb 18 15:05:55 fox kernel: 17301504 pages of RAM
Feb 18 15:05:55 fox kernel: 16547690 pages of HIGHMEM
Feb 18 15:05:55 fox kernel: 661425 reserved pages
Feb 18 15:05:55 fox kernel: 3077721 pages shared
Feb 18 15:05:55 fox kernel: 267 pages swap cached
Feb 18 15:05:55 fox kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 20210 (winmed).
Feb 18 15:05:55 fox kernel: Fixed up OOM kill of mm-less task
 
Here is /proc/meminfo when the server is running normal:
MemTotal:     66560316 kB
MemFree:      44910252 kB
Buffers:         93112 kB
Cached:       16412208 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:        9201024 kB
Inactive:     12076300 kB
HighTotal:    66190760 kB
HighFree:     44888192 kB
LowTotal:       369556 kB
LowFree:         22060 kB
SwapTotal:     2096472 kB
SwapFree:      2096472 kB
Dirty:           30476 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:        4815880 kB
Slab:           234368 kB
CommitLimit:  35376628 kB
Committed_AS: 13765424 kB
PageTables:     113736 kB
VmallocTotal:   106488 kB
VmallocUsed:      2704 kB
VmallocChunk:   103460 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
Hugepagesize:     2048 kB

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Answers

 

by: medentPosted on 2008-02-19 at 14:49:16ID: 20933397

I am thinking this is a low memory issue? How do I adjust low memory? Can I pass a kernel param?

 

by: ravenplPosted on 2008-02-20 at 00:23:40ID: 20935913

This is 32bit kernel? Right?
Try running kernel-hugemem. On RH 4.X it have 4G/4G patch applied increasing low memory from 1G to 4G.

Or run 64bit system.

 

by: medentPosted on 2008-02-20 at 03:42:59ID: 20936788

I've tried the 4/4 split and it really slows my benchmark test down (40%).  My benchmark is an automated test using several loops of our propietary application (basically a lot of reads and writes to disam and ctree files).

My app is 32 bit, I dont think I  can assume that it will work on 64.  

 

by: ravenplPosted on 2008-02-20 at 04:01:34ID: 20936867

> I've tried the 4/4 split and it really slows my benchmark test down (40%).
Wow, 40% is largest number I've seen! You have to have very very syscall oriented application ;)

It will work on 64bit OS. Every 64bit distro ships 32bit libraries as well.

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