> On Feb 28, 2017, at 10:15 AM, Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org> wrote: > > On Tue 28-02-17 09:59:35, Robert Kudyba wrote: >> >>> On Feb 28, 2017, at 9:40 AM, Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue 28-02-17 09:33:49, Robert Kudyba wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Feb 28, 2017, at 9:15 AM, Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org> wrote: >>>>> and this one is hitting the min watermark while there is not really >>>>> much to reclaim. Only the page cache which might be pinned and not >>>>> reclaimable from this context because this is GFP_NOFS request. It is >>>>> not all that surprising the reclaim context fights to get some memory. >>>>> There is a huge amount of the reclaimable slab which probably just makes >>>>> a slow progress. >>>>> >>>>> That is not something completely surprsing on 32b system I am afraid. >>>>> >>>>> Btw. is the stall repeating with the increased time or it gets resolved >>>>> eventually? >>>> >>>> Yes and if you mean by repeating it’s not only affecting rsync but >>>> you can see just now automount and NetworkManager get these page >>>> allocation stalls and kswapd0 is getting heavy CPU load, are there any >>>> other settings I can adjust? >>> >>> None that I am aware of. You might want to talk to FS guys, maybe they >>> can figure out who is pinning file pages so that they cannot be >>> reclaimed. They do not seem to be dirty or under writeback. It would be >>> also interesting to see whether that is a regression. The warning is >>> relatively new so you might have had this problem before just haven't >>> noticed it. >> >> We have been getting out of memory errors for a while but those seem >> to have gone away. > > this sounds suspicious. Are you really sure that this is a new problem? > Btw. is there any reason to use 32b kernel at all? It will always suffer > from a really small lowmem…
No this has been a problem for a while. Not sure if this server can handle 64b
it’s a bit old.
>
>> We did just replace the controller in the VessRAID
>> as there were some timeouts observed and multiple login/logout
>> attempts.
>>
>> By FS guys do you mean the linux-fsdevel or linux-fsf list?
>
> yeah linux-fsdevel. No idea what linux-fsf is. It would be great if you
> could collect some tracepoints before reporting the issue. At least
> those in events/vmscan/*.
Will do here’s a perf report:
Children Self Command Shared Object Symbol
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63.54% 0.06% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
cpu_startup_entry
62.07% 0.01% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
default_idle_call
62.06% 0.01% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
arch_cpu_idle
54.73% 54.73% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
mwait_idle
45.22% 0.00% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
start_secondary
18.35% 0.00% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
rest_init
18.35% 0.00% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
start_kernel
18.35% 0.00% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
i386_start_kernel
13.97% 0.01% rsync [vdso] [.]
__kernel_vsyscall
13.93% 0.01% rsync [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
sysenter_past_esp
13.92% 0.02% rsync [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
do_fast_syscall_32
8.58% 0.01% rsync [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
sys_write
8.56% 0.01% rsync [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
vfs_write
8.55% 0.01% rsync [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
__vfs_write
8.55% 0.00% rsync [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
ext4_file_write_iter
8.54% 0.00% rsync [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
__generic_file_write_iter
8.36% 0.04% rsync [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
generic_perform_write
6.96% 0.00% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
irq_exit
6.81% 0.01% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
do_softirq_own_stack
6.80% 0.01% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
__do_softirq
6.30% 0.00% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
do_IRQ
6.30% 0.00% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
common_interrupt
5.76% 0.01% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
net_rx_action
5.75% 0.10% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
e1000_clean
5.33% 0.01% rsync [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
sys_read
5.30% 0.00% rsync [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
vfs_read
5.28% 0.02% rsync [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
__vfs_read
5.23% 0.10% rsync [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
generic_file_read_iter
5.22% 0.00% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
netif_receive_skb_internal
5.21% 0.01% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
__netif_receive_skb
5.20% 0.01% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
__netif_receive_skb_core
5.19% 0.02% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
ip_rcv
4.93% 0.01% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
ip_rcv_finish
4.90% 0.01% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
ip_local_deliver
4.86% 0.05% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
e1000_clean_rx_irq
4.80% 0.00% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
ip_local_deliver_finish
4.80% 0.01% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
tcp_v4_rcv
4.73% 0.01% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
tcp_v4_do_rcv
