I couldn't find any particular OOM which stands out, here how a typical one looks like: alxc9 kernel: Memory cgroup out of memory (oom_kill_allocating_task): Kill process 9703 (postmaster) score 0 or sacrifice child alxc9 kernel: Killed process 9703 (postmaster) total-vm:205800kB, anon-rss:1128kB, file-rss:0kB alxc9 kernel: php invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_score_adj=0 alxc9 kernel: php cpuset=cXXXX mems_allowed=0-1 alxc9 kernel: CPU: 12 PID: 1000 Comm: php Not tainted 4.0.0-clouder9+ #31 alxc9 kernel: Hardware name: Supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F(-JBOD)/X9DRD-EF/X9DRD-7LN4F, BIOS 3.2 01/16/2015 alxc9 kernel: ffff8805d8440400 ffff88208d863c78 ffffffff815aaca3 ffff8820b947c750 alxc9 kernel: ffff8820b947c750 ffff88208d863cc8 ffffffff81123b2e ffff882000000000 alxc9 kernel: ffffffff000000d0 ffff8805d8440400 ffff8820b947c750 ffff8820b947cee0 alxc9 kernel: Call Trace: alxc9 kernel: [<ffffffff815aaca3>] dump_stack+0x48/0x5d alxc9 kernel: [<ffffffff81123b2e>] dump_header+0x8e/0xe0 alxc9 kernel: [<ffffffff81123fa7>] oom_kill_process+0x1d7/0x3c0 alxc9 kernel: [<ffffffff810d85a1>] ? cpuset_mems_allowed_intersects+0x21/0x30 alxc9 kernel: [<ffffffff8118c2bd>] mem_cgroup_out_of_memory+0x2bd/0x370 alxc9 kernel: [<ffffffff81189b37>] ? mem_cgroup_iter+0x177/0x390 alxc9 kernel: [<ffffffff8118c5d7>] mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize+0x267/0x290 alxc9 kernel: [<ffffffff811874f0>] ? mem_cgroup_wait_acct_move+0x140/0x140 alxc9 kernel: [<ffffffff81124504>] pagefault_out_of_memory+0x24/0xe0 alxc9 kernel: [<ffffffff81041927>] mm_fault_error+0x47/0x160 alxc9 kernel: [<ffffffff81041db0>] __do_page_fault+0x340/0x3c0 alxc9 kernel: [<ffffffff81041e6c>] do_page_fault+0x3c/0x90 alxc9 kernel: [<ffffffff815b1758>] page_fault+0x28/0x30 alxc9 kernel: Task in /lxc/cXXXX killed as a result of limit of /lxc/cXXXX alxc9 kernel: memory: usage 2097152kB, limit 2097152kB, failcnt 7832302 alxc9 kernel: memory+swap: usage 2097152kB, limit 2621440kB, failcnt 0 alxc9 kernel: kmem: usage 0kB, limit 9007199254740988kB, failcnt 0 alxc9 kernel: Memory cgroup stats for /lxc/cXXXX: cache:22708KB rss:2074444KB rss_huge:0KB mapped_file:19960KB writeback:4KB swap:0KB inactive_anon:20364KB active_anon:2074896KB inactive_file:1236KB active_file:464KB unevictable:0KB The backtrace for other processes is exactly the same. On 06/25/2015 02:50 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 25-06-15 14:43:42, Nikolay Borisov wrote: >> I do have several OOM reports unfortunately I don't think I can >> correlate them in any sensible way to be able to answer the question >> "Which was the process that was writing prior to the D state occuring". >> Maybe you can be more specific as to what am I likely looking for? > > Is the system still in this state? If yes I would check the last few OOM > reports which will tell you the pid of the oom victim and then I would > check sysrq+t whether they are still alive. And if yes check their stack > traces to see whether they are still in the allocation path or they got > stuck somewhere else or maybe they are not related at all... > > sysrq+t might be useful even when this is not oom related because it can > pinpoint the task which is blocking your waiters. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
