On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 11:44:45PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > On 2016/12/17 21:59, Nils Holland wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 01:02:03AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > >> mount -t tracefs none /debug/trace > >> echo 1 > /debug/trace/events/vmscan/enable > >> cat /debug/trace/trace_pipe > trace.log > >> > >> should help > >> [...] > > > > No problem! I enabled writing the trace data to a file and then tried > > to trigger another OOM situation. That worked, this time without a > > complete kernel panic, but with only my processes being killed and the > > system becoming unresponsive. > > Under OOM situation, writing to a file on disk unlikely works. Maybe > logging via network ( "cat /debug/trace/trace_pipe > /dev/udp/$ip/$port" > if your are using bash) works better. (I wish we can do it from kernel > so that /bin/cat is not disturbed by delays due to page fault.) > > If you can configure netconsole for logging OOM killer messages and > UDP socket for logging trace_pipe messages, udplogger at > https://osdn.net/projects/akari/scm/svn/tree/head/branches/udplogger/ > might fit for logging both output with timestamp into a single file. Actually, I decided to give this a try once more on machine #2, i.e. not the one that produced the previous trace, but the other one. I logged via netconsole as well as 'cat /debug/trace/trace_pipe' via the network to another machine running udplogger. After the machine had been frehsly booted and I had set up the logging, unpacking of the firefox source tarball started. After it had been unpacking for a while, the first load of trace messages started to appear. Some time later, OOMs started to appear - I've got quite a lot of them in my capture file this time. Unfortunately, the reclaim trace messages stopped a while after the first OOM messages show up - most likely my "cat" had been killed at that point or became unresponsive. :-/ In the end, the machine didn't completely panic, but after nothing new showed up being logged via the network, I walked up to the machine and found it in a state where I couldn't really log in to it anymore, but all that worked was, as always, a magic SysRequest reboot. The complete log, from machine boot right up to the point where it wouldn't really do anything anymore, is up again on my web server (~42 MB, 928 KB packed): http://ftp.tisys.org/pub/misc/teela_2016-12-17.log.xz Greetings Nils -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>