From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 03:31:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 03:31:37 -0400 Received: from moutvdom01.kundenserver.de ([195.20.224.200]:20073 "EHLO moutvdom01.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 03:31:27 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Christian =?iso-8859-1?q?Borntr=E4ger?= To: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:29:23 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Paul Larson , Linus Torvalds , =?iso-8859-1?q?Jacek=5Biso-8859-2=5DPop=B3awski?= , lkml In-Reply-To: <1001319223.4613.34.camel@plars.austin.ibm.com> <20010926014603.S1782@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010926014603.S1782@athlon.random> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > ok, this sounds like a normal oom condition but of course I assume it > isn't. Can you show a `vmstat 1` during the oom kill + some > /proc/meminfo? thanks for the great feedback! As the VM sometimes killed me some long lasting root processes, like klogd, I think it is not the normal oom behaviour........ :-) vmstat: procs memory swap io system cpu r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id 0 0 0 0 457824 8476 28856 0 0 225 140 156 163 4 51 45 0 0 0 0 457440 8476 28860 0 0 0 280 143 103 1 52 47 0 0 0 0 457440 8476 28860 0 0 0 0 101 70 1 60 39 0 0 0 0 457440 8476 28860 0 0 0 0 109 86 1 56 43 0 0 0 0 457436 8476 28864 0 0 0 0 102 73 1 59 40 0 0 1 0 457436 8476 28864 0 0 0 0 101 70 1 58 41 0 0 0 0 457436 8476 28864 0 0 0 236 130 88 0 59 41 0 0 0 0 457436 8476 28864 0 0 0 0 101 69 1 60 39 0 0 0 0 457436 8476 28864 0 0 0 0 101 71 1 60 39 0 0 0 0 457436 8476 28864 0 0 0 0 101 71 0 60 40 1 0 0 0 168236 8476 28928 0 0 64 0 117 79 11 72 17 1 2 0 0 496532 236 1660 0 0 2948 252 415 303 5 75 20 0 0 0 0 495568 408 2364 0 0 708 0 184 206 1 26 73 0 0 1 0 495532 412 2396 0 0 36 0 105 78 1 59 40 0 0 0 0 495528 416 2396 0 0 0 0 106 81 1 60 39 0 0 0 0 495376 560 2396 0 0 0 272 139 103 1 56 43 0 0 0 0 495376 560 2396 0 0 0 0 104 78 1 60 39 meminfo: (a made a looping bash script with sleep 1 after a cat /proc/meminfo. But During the kill there is a 3 second gap) Mit Sep 26 09:14:58 CEST 2001 total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 526491648 58064896 468426752 0 8679424 29556736 Swap: 0 0 0 MemTotal: 514152 kB MemFree: 457448 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 8476 kB Cached: 28864 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 19084 kB Inactive: 18256 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 514152 kB LowFree: 457448 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Mit Sep 26 09:14:59 CEST 2001 total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 526491648 162996224 363495424 0 8679424 29622272 Swap: 0 0 0 MemTotal: 514152 kB MemFree: 354976 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 8476 kB Cached: 28928 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 19112 kB Inactive: 18292 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 514152 kB LowFree: 354976 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Mit Sep 26 09:15:02 CEST 2001 total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 526491648 18993152 507498496 0 409600 2408448 Swap: 0 0 0 MemTotal: 514152 kB MemFree: 495604 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 400 kB Cached: 2352 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 1388 kB Inactive: 1364 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 514152 kB LowFree: 495604 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Mit Sep 26 09:15:03 CEST 2001 total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 526491648 19054592 507437056 0 421888 2453504 Swap: 0 0 0 MemTotal: 514152 kB MemFree: 495544 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 412 kB Cached: 2396 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 1496 kB Inactive: 1312 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 514152 kB LowFree: 495544 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB