Re: OOM Killer killing whole system

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Anton Titov <a.titov@host.bg> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 19:17 -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 16:50 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > For linux-scsi reference, Chase's /proc/slabinfo says:
> > > 
> > > scsi_cmd_cache    1547440 1547440    384   10    1 : tunables   54   27    8 : 
> > > slabdata 154744 154744      0
> > 
> > There's another curiosity about this: the linux command stack is pretty
> > well counted per scsi device (it's how we control queue depth), so if a
> > driver leaks commands we see it not by this type of behaviour, but by
> > the system hanging (waiting for all the commands the mid-layer thinks
> > are outstanding to return).  So, the only way we could leak commands
> > like this is in the mid-layer command return logic ... and I can't find
> > anywhere this might happen.
> > 
> 
> Just to mention, that 2.6.14.2 does not have this problem:
> 
> vip ~ # cat /proc/slabinfo | grep scsi
> scsi_cmd_cache        60     60    384   10    1 : tunables   54   27
> 8 : slabdata      6      6     27
> 
> but my guess is that the problem may be not in SCSI, as not /and
> previosly actually/ I have this:
> 
> vip ~ # cat /proc/slabinfo | grep reiser
> reiser_inode_cache 556594 556614    408    9    1 : tunables   54   27
> 8 : slabdata  61846  61846      0
> 
> which seems too high too

Having large numbers of cached inodes is fairly common.  Try running
something which uses lots of memory: memset(malloc(gigabytes)), or usemem
from http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/ext3-tools.tar.gz or
read a multi-gigabyte file from disk and you shuld see the inode count wind
down.