On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:37:09 +1100 Donald Douwsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote: > >> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:27:34 -0500 (EST) Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >> Why does copying an 18GB on a 74GB raptor raid1 cause the kernel to invoke > >> the OOM killer and kill all of my processes? > > > > What's that? Software raid or hardware raid? If the latter, which driver? > > I've hit this using local disk while testing xfs built against 2.6.20-rc4 > (SMP x86_64) > > dmesg follows, I'm not sure if anything in this is useful after the first > event as our automated tests continued on > after the failure. This looks different. > ... > > Mem-info: > Node 0 DMA per-cpu: > CPU 0: Hot: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: > 0 > CPU 1: Hot: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: > 0 > CPU 2: Hot: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: > 0 > CPU 3: Hot: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: > 0 > Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu: > CPU 0: Hot: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 31 Cold: hi: 62, btch: 15 usd: > 53 > CPU 1: Hot: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 2 Cold: hi: 62, btch: 15 usd: > 60 > CPU 2: Hot: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 20 Cold: hi: 62, btch: 15 usd: > 47 > CPU 3: Hot: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 25 Cold: hi: 62, btch: 15 usd: > 56 > Active:76 inactive:495856 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:3680 slab:9119 > mapped:32 pagetables:637 No dirty pages, no pages under writeback. > Node 0 DMA free:8036kB min:24kB low:28kB high:36kB active:0kB inactive:1856kB > present:9376kB pages_scanned:3296 > all_unreclaimable? yes > lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2003 2003 > Node 0 DMA32 free:6684kB min:5712kB low:7140kB high:8568kB active:304kB > inactive:1981624kB present:2052068kB Inactive list is filled. > pages_scanned:4343329 all_unreclaimable? yes We scanned our guts out and decided that nothing was reclaimable. > No available memory (MPOL_BIND): kill process 3492 (hald) score 0 or a child > No available memory (MPOL_BIND): kill process 7914 (top) score 0 or a child > No available memory (MPOL_BIND): kill process 4166 (nscd) score 0 or a child > No available memory (MPOL_BIND): kill process 17869 (xfs_repair) score 0 or a > child But in all cases a constrained memory policy was in use. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
