> CC: "Andrew Morton" <a...@linux-foundation.org>, "Michal Hocko" 
> <mho...@suse.cz>, "David Rientjes" <rient...@google.com>, "KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki" 
> <kamezawa.hir...@jp.fujitsu.com>, "KOSAKI Motohiro" 
> <kosaki.motoh...@jp.fujitsu.com>, linux...@kvack.org, 
> cgro...@vger.kernel.org, x...@kernel.org, linux-a...@vger.kernel.org, 
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 09:41:18PM +0200, azurIt wrote:
>> >On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 08:54:48PM +0200, azurIt wrote:
>> >> >On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 02:33:05PM +0200, azurIt wrote:
>> >> >> >On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:32:47PM +0200, azurIt wrote:
>> >> >> >> >On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:08:53PM +0200, azurIt wrote:
>> >> >> >> >> >On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 09:32:53PM +0200, azurIt wrote:
>> >> >> >> >> >> Here is full kernel log between 6:00 and 7:59:
>> >> >> >> >> >> http://watchdog.sk/lkml/kern6.log
>> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> >Wow, your apaches are like the hydra.  Whenever one is OOM 
>> >> >> >> >> >killed,
>> >> >> >> >> >more show up!
>> >> >> >> >> 
>> >> >> >> >> 
>> >> >> >> >> 
>> >> >> >> >> Yeah, it's supposed to do this ;)
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >How are you expecting the machine to recover from an OOM situation,
>> >> >> >though?  I guess I don't really understand what these machines are
>> >> >> >doing.  But if you are overloading them like crazy, isn't that the
>> >> >> >expected outcome?
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> There's no global OOM, server has enough of memory. OOM is occuring 
>> >> >> only in cgroups (customers who simply don't want to pay for more 
>> >> >> memory).
>> >> >
>> >> >Yes, sure, but when the cgroups are thrashing, they use the disk and
>> >> >CPU to the point where the overall system is affected.
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> Didn't know that there is a disk usage because of this, i never noticed 
>> >> anything yet.
>> >
>> >You said there was heavy IO going on...?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Yes, there usually was a big IO but it was related to that
>> deadlocking bug in kernel (or i assume it was). I never saw a big IO
>> in normal conditions even when there were lots of OOM in
>> cgroups. I'm even not using swap because of this so i was assuming
>> that lacks of memory is not doing any additional IO (or am i
>> wrong?). And if you mean that last problem with IO from Monday, i
>> don't exactly know what happens but it's really long time when we
>> had so big problem with IO that it disables also root login on
>> console.
>
>The deadlocking problem should be separate from this.
>
>Even without swap, the binaries and libraries of the running tasks can
>get reclaimed (and immediately faulted back from disk, i.e thrashing).
>
>Usually the OOM killer should kick in before tasks cannibalize each
>other like that.
>
>The patch you were using did in fact have the side effect of widening
>the window between tasks entering heavy reclaim and the OOM killer
>kicking in, so it could explain the IO worsening while fixing the dead
>lock problem.
>
>That followup patch tries to narrow this window by quite a bit and
>tries to stop concurrent reclaim when the group is already OOM.
>

Johannes,

it's, unfortunately, happening several times per day and we cannot work like 
this :( i will boot previous kernel this night. If you have any patches which 
can help me or you, please send them so i can install them with this reboot. 
Thank you.

azur
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