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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] oom killer problems
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 20:37:20
Message-Id: 200509282235.32195.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
1 Hi,
2 when I try to emerge kdepim-3.4.2 with the kdeenablefinal use-flag I get a lot
3 of oom-kills.
4 I got them with 512mb, so I upgraded to 1gig and still have them.
5 What puzzles me is, that I have a lot of swap free when it happens.. could
6 someone please tell me, why the oom-killer becomes active, when there is
7 still a lot of free swap?
8 I am just an user, so using easy words would be much appreciated ;)
9
10 5364.515694] oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0
11 [ 5364.515696] Mem-info:
12 [ 5364.515698] DMA per-cpu:
13 [ 5364.515700] cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 used:5
14 [ 5364.515703] cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 used:1
15 [ 5364.515705] Normal per-cpu:
16 [ 5364.515707] cpu 0 hot: low 62, high 186, batch 31 used:99
17 [ 5364.515709] cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 62, batch 31 used:54
18 [ 5364.515711] HighMem per-cpu: empty
19 [ 5364.515714] Free pages: 8068kB (0kB HighMem)
20 [ 5364.515718] Active:242539 inactive:312 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
21 free:2017 slab:5622 mapped:241995 pagetables:1927
22 [ 5364.515723] DMA free:4088kB min:60kB low:72kB high:88kB active:8392kB
23 inactive:0kB present:15996kB pages_scanned:8424 all_unreclaimable? yes
24 [ 5364.515726] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 1007 1007
25 [ 5364.515731] Normal free:3980kB min:4028kB low:5032kB high:6040kB
26 active:961764kB inactive:1248kB present:1031872kB pages_scanned:1485831
27 all_unreclaimable? yes
28 [ 5364.515734] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
29 [ 5364.515738] HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:160kB high:192kB active:0kB
30 inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
31 [ 5364.515740] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
32 [ 5364.515742] DMA: 0*4kB 1*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB
33 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 4088kB
34 [ 5364.515749] Normal: 1*4kB 3*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB 2*128kB 0*256kB
35 1*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3980kB
36 [ 5364.515756] HighMem: empty
37 [ 5364.515759] Swap cache: add 35992, delete 28384, find 8627/10318, race 0+0
38 [ 5364.515761] Free swap = 918004kB
39 [ 5364.515763] Total swap = 996020kB
40 [ 5364.515765] Free swap: 918004kB
41 [ 5364.521082] 262064 pages of RAM
42 [ 5364.521084] 5479 reserved pages
43 [ 5364.521086] 111904 pages shared
44 [ 5364.521088] 7608 pages swap cached
45 [ 5364.521146] Out of Memory: Killed process 7513 (klauncher).
46 [ 5373.371852] oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0
47 [ 5373.371857] Mem-info:
48 [ 5373.371859] DMA per-cpu:
49 [ 5373.371862] cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 used:5
50 [ 5373.371864] cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 used:1
51 [ 5373.371866] Normal per-cpu:
52 [ 5373.371868] cpu 0 hot: low 62, high 186, batch 31 used:75
53 [ 5373.371871] cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 62, batch 31 used:34
54 [ 5373.371873] HighMem per-cpu: empty
55 [ 5373.371876] Free pages: 9024kB (0kB HighMem)
56 [ 5373.371880] Active:159724 inactive:82930 dirty:0 writeback:381 unstable:0
57 free:2256 slab:5596 mapped:240928 pagetables:1927
58 [ 5373.371884] DMA free:4088kB min:60kB low:72kB high:88kB active:8392kB
59 inactive:0kB present:15996kB pages_scanned:8424 all_unreclaimable? yes
60 [ 5373.371887] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 1007 1007
61 [ 5373.371892] Normal free:4936kB min:4028kB low:5032kB high:6040kB
62 active:630504kB inactive:331720kB present:1031872kB pages_scanned:376761
63 all_unreclaimable? no
64 [ 5373.371896] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
65 [ 5373.371899] HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:160kB high:192kB active:0kB
66 inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
67 [ 5373.371902] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
68 [ 5373.371904] DMA: 0*4kB 1*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB
69 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 4088kB
70 [ 5373.371911] Normal: 170*4kB 26*8kB 5*16kB 2*32kB 1*64kB 2*128kB 0*256kB
71 1*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 4936kB
72 [ 5373.371918] HighMem: empty
73 [ 5373.371921] Swap cache: add 36927, delete 28640, find 8691/10408, race 0+0
74 [ 5373.371923] Free swap = 914904kB
75 [ 5373.371925] Total swap = 996020kB
76 [ 5373.371926] Free swap: 914904kB
77 [ 5373.377339] 262064 pages of RAM
78 [ 5373.377342] 5479 reserved pages
79 [ 5373.377344] 112097 pages shared
80 [ 5373.377346] 8287 pages swap cached
81 [ 5373.377403] Out of Memory: Killed process 7533 (kwin).
82
83 kernel is 2.6.13-r2
84 I have 1gb of ram, and approximatly 1gb of swap.
85
86 Glück Auf
87 Volker
88
89 ps.
90 I emerged kdepim without kdeenablefinal, so there is no big pressure, I am
91 just curious
92
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[gentoo-amd64] Re: oom killer problems Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] oom killer problems - solved "Hemmann