Re: 3.4-rc4 oom killer out of control.

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On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 03:20:34PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
 > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Dave Jones wrote:
 > 
 > > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/full_scans is increasing constantly
 > > 
 > > full_scans: 146370
 > > pages_shared: 1
 > > pages_sharing: 4
 > > pages_to_scan: 1250
 > > pages_unshared: 867
 > > pages_volatile: 1
 > > run: 1
 > > sleep_millisecs: 20
 > > 
 > 
 > full_scans is just a counter of how many times it has scanned mergable 
 > memory so it should be increasing constantly.  Whether pages_to_scan == 
 > 1250 and sleep_millisecs == 20 is good for your system is unknown.  You 
 > may want to try disabling ksm entirely (echo 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run) 
 > to see if it significantly increases responsiveness for your workload.

Disabling it stops it hogging the cpu obviously, but there's still 8G of RAM
and 1G of used swap sitting around doing something.

# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       8149440    8025716     123724          0        148       7764
-/+ buffers/cache:    8017804     131636
Swap:      1423736    1066112     357624

SysRq : Show Memory
Mem-Info:
Node 0 DMA per-cpu:
CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
CPU    1: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
CPU    2: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
CPU    3: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu:
CPU    0: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  19
CPU    1: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 175
CPU    2: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 140
CPU    3: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 182
Node 0 Normal per-cpu:
CPU    0: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 167
CPU    1: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 176
CPU    2: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 102
CPU    3: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  94
active_anon:1529737 inactive_anon:306307 isolated_anon:0
 active_file:1124 inactive_file:2170 isolated_file:0
 unevictable:1414 dirty:1 writeback:0 unstable:0
 free:35645 slab_reclaimable:10150 slab_unreclaimable:56678
 mapped:404 shmem:48 pagetables:45796 bounce:0
Node 0 DMA free:15876kB min:128kB low:160kB high:192kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:15652kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:0kB shmem:0kB slab_reclaimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:32kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? yes
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 3246 8034 8034
Node 0 DMA32 free:62632kB min:27252kB low:34064kB high:40876kB active_anon:2637356kB inactive_anon:527504kB active_file:72kB inactive_file:84kB unevictable:788kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:3324200kB mlocked:788kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:212kB shmem:72kB slab_reclaimable:944kB slab_unreclaimable:24736kB kernel_stack:336kB pagetables:30028kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:116 all_unreclaimable? no
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 4788 4788
Node 0 Normal free:64072kB min:40196kB low:50244kB high:60292kB active_anon:3481592kB inactive_anon:697724kB active_file:4424kB inactive_file:8596kB unevictable:4868kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:4902912kB mlocked:4868kB dirty:4kB writeback:0kB mapped:1404kB shmem:120kB slab_reclaimable:39656kB slab_unreclaimable:201944kB kernel_stack:2968kB pagetables:153156kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
Node 0 DMA: 1*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 2*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 3*4096kB = 15876kB
Node 0 DMA32: 214*4kB 124*8kB 65*16kB 55*32kB 32*64kB 15*128kB 9*256kB 7*512kB 7*1024kB 4*2048kB 8*4096kB = 62632kB
Node 0 Normal: 670*4kB 573*8kB 402*16kB 468*32kB 171*64kB 73*128kB 31*256kB 12*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 64064kB
5683 total pagecache pages
2341 pages in swap cache
Swap cache stats: add 2029253, delete 2026912, find 483987/484568
Free swap  = 343568kB
Total swap = 1423736kB
2097136 pages RAM
59776 pages reserved
891838 pages shared
1996710 pages non-shared


All that anon memory seems to be unaccounted for.

[ pid ]   uid  tgid total_vm      rss cpu oom_adj oom_score_adj name
[  351]     0   351     4372        2   3     -17         -1000 udevd
[  818]     0   818    18861       26   0     -17         -1000 sshd
[ 1199]     0  1199     4372        2   3     -17         -1000 udevd
[ 1214]     0  1214     4371        2   1     -17         -1000 udevd
[28963]     0 28963    30988      271   2       0             0 sshd
[28987]    81 28987     5439      150   3     -13          -900 dbus-daemon
[28990]     0 28990     7085      136   0       0             0 systemd-logind
[28995]  1000 28995    31023      373   1       0             0 sshd
[29008]  1000 29008    29864      875   2       0             0 bash
[29132]  1000 29132    44732      155   3       0             0 sudo
[29135]     0 29135    29870     1094   3       0             0 bash
[29521]     0 29521     4877      196   0       0             0 systemd-kmsg-sy
[29541]     0 29541    27232      211   3       0             0 agetty
[29553]     0 29553    29870      875   2       0             0 bash

	Dave

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