From: andrew hendry on
I left a 2.6.35-rc1 system, ubuntu 10.4/64 building randconfigs in a
ramdisk overnight.
/dev/ram0 9842848 5141780 4201068 56% /media/ramdisk

After about 3 hours oom killer started killing nearly all the
processes, but the memory is still not released. Could ramdisk cause
this? How can I find out what is still using all the memory?

cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 8187304 kB
MemFree: 231976 kB
Buffers: 424 kB
Cached: 19728 kB
SwapCached: 51144 kB
Active: 14056 kB
Inactive: 72592 kB
Active(anon): 12900 kB
Inactive(anon): 53940 kB
Active(file): 1156 kB
Inactive(file): 18652 kB
Unevictable: 0 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 1986556 kB
SwapFree: 1504676 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 19720 kB
AnonPages: 32884 kB
Mapped: 4760 kB
Shmem: 4 kB
Slab: 51652 kB
SReclaimable: 28816 kB
SUnreclaim: 22836 kB
KernelStack: 2880 kB
PageTables: 18484 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 6080208 kB
Committed_AS: 1133944 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed: 350936 kB
VmallocChunk: 34359369212 kB
HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
DirectMap4k: 7616 kB
DirectMap2M: 8372224 kB

Active / Total Objects (% used) : 152645 / 170934 (89.3%)
Active / Total Slabs (% used) : 3918 / 3918 (100.0%)
Active / Total Caches (% used) : 68 / 88 (77.3%)
Active / Total Size (% used) : 43995.40K / 49940.66K (88.1%)
Minimum / Average / Maximum Object : 0.01K / 0.29K / 16.12K

OBJS ACTIVE USE OBJ SIZE SLABS OBJ/SLAB CACHE SIZE NAME
39063 35168 90% 0.55K 1347 29 21552K radix_tree_node
17296 17114 98% 0.17K 376 46 3008K vm_area_struct
2706 1173 43% 0.96K 82 33 2624K ext4_inode_cache
385 377 97% 5.62K 77 5 2464K task_struct
300 299 99% 8.00K 75 4 2400K kmalloc-8192
8820 8265 93% 0.19K 210 42 1680K kmalloc-192
8400 4063 48% 0.19K 200 42 1600K dentry
2268 1624 71% 0.58K 84 27 1344K inode_cache
13617 13617 100% 0.08K 267 51 1068K sysfs_dir_cache
1024 937 91% 1.00K 32 32 1024K kmalloc-1024
14592 9444 64% 0.06K 228 64 912K kmalloc-64
400 372 93% 2.00K 25 16 800K kmalloc-2048
375 326 86% 2.06K 25 15 800K sighand_cache
1000 989 98% 0.79K 25 40 800K shmem_inode_cache
152 140 92% 4.00K 19 8 608K kmalloc-4096
714 711 99% 0.75K 17 42 544K RAW
7280 7280 100% 0.07K 130 56 520K Acpi-ParseExt

Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310588] firefox-bin invoked
oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=1, oom_adj=0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310591] firefox-bin cpuset=/
mems_allowed=0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310594] Pid: 13275, comm:
firefox-bin Not tainted 2.6.35-rc1+ #3
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310595] Call Trace:
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310603] [<ffffffff810ec772>]
dump_header+0x72/0x1c0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310608] [<ffffffff8151e5dc>] ?
_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x2c/0x50
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310612] [<ffffffff8127e39f>] ?
___ratelimit+0x9f/0x110
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310615] [<ffffffff810ec941>]
oom_kill_process+0x81/0x180
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310619] [<ffffffff810ece98>]
__out_of_memory+0x58/0xd0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310622] [<ffffffff810ecf97>]
out_of_memory+0x87/0x1d0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310625] [<ffffffff810f08d4>]
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x714/0x730
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310629] [<ffffffff8152208e>] ?
add_preempt_count+0xe/0xd0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310634] [<ffffffff81121f09>]
alloc_pages_current+0x99/0x100
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310637] [<ffffffff810ef81e>]
__get_free_pages+0xe/0x50
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310642] [<ffffffff81058974>]
copy_process+0xe4/0x1130
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310645] [<ffffffff81048161>] ?
get_parent_ip+0x11/0x50
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310649] [<ffffffff8152204d>] ?
sub_preempt_count+0x9d/0xd0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310652] [<ffffffff8151e58a>] ?
_raw_spin_unlock+0x1a/0x40
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310656] [<ffffffff811081d3>] ?
handle_mm_fault+0x623/0xab0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310659] [<ffffffff81059a54>]
do_fork+0x94/0x450
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310662] [<ffffffff81521d3a>] ?
do_page_fault+0x15a/0x3d0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310667] [<ffffffff810137a8>]
sys_clone+0x28/0x30
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310670] [<ffffffff8100b413>]
stub_clone+0x13/0x20
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310673] [<ffffffff8100b0f2>] ?
system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310676] Mem-Info:
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310678] Node 0 DMA per-cpu:
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310680] CPU 0: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310682] CPU 1: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310684] CPU 2: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310686] CPU 3: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310688] CPU 4: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310690] CPU 5: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310692] CPU 6: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310694] CPU 7: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310696] Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu:
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310699] CPU 0: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310701] CPU 1: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310702] CPU 2: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310704] CPU 3: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310706] CPU 4: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310708] CPU 5: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310710] CPU 6: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310712] CPU 7: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310713] Node 0 Normal per-cpu:
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310716] CPU 0: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310717] CPU 1: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310719] CPU 2: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310721] CPU 3: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 20
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310723] CPU 4: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310725] CPU 5: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310727] CPU 6: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310729] CPU 7: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310732] active_anon:39101
inactive_anon:23724 isolated_anon:128
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310733] active_file:32
inactive_file:68 isolated_file:32
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310734] unevictable:4 dirty:11
writeback:21 unstable:0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310735] free:90150
slab_reclaimable:8434 slab_unreclaimable:6106
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310736] mapped:92 shmem:19
pagetables:6622 bounce:0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310737] Node 0 DMA free:15812kB
min:20kB low:24kB high:28kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB
active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB
isolated(file):0kB present:15696kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB
mapped:0kB shmem:0kB slab_reclaimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:16kB
kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB
writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310746] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2991 8041 8041
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310751] Node 0 DMA32
free:205968kB min:4264kB low:5328kB high:6396kB active_anon:0kB
inactive_anon:404kB active_file:20kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB
isolated(anon):256kB isolated(file):128kB present:3063456kB
mlocked:0kB dirty:24kB writeback:40kB mapped:132kB shmem:0kB
slab_reclaimable:5248kB slab_unreclaimable:372kB kernel_stack:112kB
pagetables:688kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB
pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310758] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 5050 5050
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310763] Node 0 Normal
free:138820kB min:7200kB low:9000kB high:10800kB active_anon:156428kB
inactive_anon
:94492kB active_file:108kB inactive_file:280kB unevictable:16kB
isolated(anon):256kB isolated(file):0kB present:5171200kB mlocked:16kB
dirty:20kB writeback:44kB mapped:236kB shmem:76kB
slab_reclaimable:28488kB slab_unreclaimable:24036kB
kernel_stack:3056kB pagetables:25800kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB
writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310771] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310775] Node 0 DMA: 1*4kB 0*8kB
0*16kB 2*32kB 2*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB
3*4096kB = 15812kB
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310786] Node 0 DMA32: 50966*4kB
81*8kB 3*16kB 2*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB
0*4096kB = 206224kB
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310796] Node 0 Normal: 33997*4kB
25*8kB 6*16kB 3*32kB 0*64kB 2*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB
0*4096kB = 139452kB
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310807] 19073 total pagecache pages
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310808] 18904 pages in swap cache
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310810] Swap cache stats: add
64440380, delete 64421476, find 5022143/13127219
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310812] Free swap = 0kB
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310814] Total swap = 1986556kB
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.325717] 2097136 pages RAM
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.325719] 50310 pages reserved
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.325720] 322 pages shared
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.325721] 1955500 pages non-shared
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.325724] Out of memory: kill
process 1446 (gnome-session) score 168483 or a child
Jun 5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.325727] Killed process 1477
(ibus-daemon) vsz:64288kB, anon-rss:420kB, file-rss:0kB
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.499997] collect2 invoked
oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=1, oom_adj=0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500000] collect2 cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500003] Pid: 8067, comm:
collect2 Not tainted 2.6.35-rc1+ #3
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500005] Call Trace:
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500012] [<ffffffff810ec772>]
dump_header+0x72/0x1c0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500017] [<ffffffff8151e5dc>] ?
_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x2c/0x50
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500020] [<ffffffff8127e39f>] ?
___ratelimit+0x9f/0x110
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500023] [<ffffffff810ec941>]
oom_kill_process+0x81/0x180
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500026] [<ffffffff810ece98>]
__out_of_memory+0x58/0xd0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500028] [<ffffffff810ecf97>]
out_of_memory+0x87/0x1d0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500031] [<ffffffff810f08d4>]
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x714/0x730
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500036] [<ffffffff81048161>] ?
get_parent_ip+0x11/0x50
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500039] [<ffffffff81121f09>]
alloc_pages_current+0x99/0x100
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500042] [<ffffffff810ef81e>]
__get_free_pages+0xe/0x50
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500045] [<ffffffff81058974>]
copy_process+0xe4/0x1130
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500048] [<ffffffff81107d75>] ?
handle_mm_fault+0x1c5/0xab0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500051] [<ffffffff81059a54>]
do_fork+0x94/0x450
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500053] [<ffffffff81048161>] ?
get_parent_ip+0x11/0x50
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500056] [<ffffffff81048161>] ?
get_parent_ip+0x11/0x50
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500058] [<ffffffff8152204d>] ?
sub_preempt_count+0x9d/0xd0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500061] [<ffffffff81521d3a>] ?
do_page_fault+0x15a/0x3d0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500064] [<ffffffff810137d5>]
sys_vfork+0x25/0x30
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500068] [<ffffffff8100b453>]
stub_vfork+0x13/0x20
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500070] [<ffffffff8100b0f2>] ?
system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500072] Mem-Info:
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500074] Node 0 DMA per-cpu:
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500076] CPU 0: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500077] CPU 1: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500079] CPU 2: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500080] CPU 3: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500081] CPU 4: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500083] CPU 5: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500084] CPU 6: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500086] CPU 7: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500087] Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu:
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500089] CPU 0: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500090] CPU 1: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500091] CPU 2: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500093] CPU 3: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500094] CPU 4: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500096] CPU 5: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500097] CPU 6: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500098] CPU 7: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500100] Node 0 Normal per-cpu:
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500101] CPU 0: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500103] CPU 1: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500104] CPU 2: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500106] CPU 3: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500107] CPU 4: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500108] CPU 5: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500110] CPU 6: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500111] CPU 7: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500115] active_anon:25887
inactive_anon:5496 isolated_anon:32
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500115] active_file:0
inactive_file:0 isolated_file:61
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500116] unevictable:4 dirty:60
writeback:0 unstable:0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500117] free:117962
slab_reclaimable:8356 slab_unreclaimable:6052
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500117] mapped:1 shmem:37
pagetables:6226 bounce:0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500119] Node 0 DMA free:15812kB
min:20kB low:24kB high:28kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB
active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB
isolated(file):0kB present:15696kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB
mapped:0kB shmem:0kB slab_reclaimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:16kB
kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB
writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500126] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2991 8041 8041
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500129] Node 0 DMA32
free:200664kB min:4264kB low:5328kB high:6396kB active_anon:120kB
inactive_anon:32kB active_file:4kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB
isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:3063456kB mlocked:0kB
dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:0kB shmem:0kB slab_reclaimable:5060kB
slab_unreclaimable:244kB kernel_stack:240kB pagetables:672kB
unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0
all_unreclaimable? no
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500136] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 5050 5050
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500139] Node 0 Normal
free:255372kB min:7200kB low:9000kB high:10800kB active_anon:103428kB
inactive_anon:21952kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB
unevictable:16kB isolated(anon):128kB isolated(file):244kB
present:5171200kB mlocked:16kB dirty:240kB writeback:0kB mapped:4kB
shmem:148kB slab_reclaimable:28364kB slab_unreclaimable:23948kB
kernel_stack:3008kB pagetables:24232kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB
writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500147] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500150] Node 0 DMA: 1*4kB 0*8kB
0*16kB 2*32kB 2*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB
3*4096kB = 15812kB
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500157] Node 0 DMA32: 49660*4kB
14*8kB 4*16kB 6*32kB 1*64kB 2*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB
0*4096kB = 200864kB
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500165] Node 0 Normal: 63050*4kB
5*8kB 5*16kB 9*32kB 1*64kB 2*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB
0*4096kB = 255744kB
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500172] 81 total pagecache pages
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500173] 107 pages in swap cache
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500175] Swap cache stats: add
64583476, delete 64583369, find 5037944/13158563
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500176] Free swap = 4kB
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500177] Total swap = 1986556kB
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.515738] 2097136 pages RAM
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.515740] 50310 pages reserved
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.515742] 322 pages shared
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.515743] 1928184 pages non-shared
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.515746] Out of memory: kill
process 1446 (gnome-session) score 164464 or a child
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.515750] Killed process 1481
(ssh-agent) vsz:11976kB, anon-rss:28kB, file-rss:0kB
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.534292] collect2 invoked
oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=1, oom_adj=0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.534296] collect2 cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.534299] Pid: 8067, comm:
collect2 Not tainted 2.6.35-rc1+ #3
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.534301] Call Trace:
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500012] [<ffffffff810ec772>]
dump_header+0x72/0x1c0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500017] [<ffffffff8151e5dc>] ?
_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x2c/0x50
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500020] [<ffffffff8127e39f>] ?
___ratelimit+0x9f/0x110
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500023] [<ffffffff810ec941>]
oom_kill_process+0x81/0x180
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500026] [<ffffffff810ece98>]
__out_of_memory+0x58/0xd0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500028] [<ffffffff810ecf97>]
out_of_memory+0x87/0x1d0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500031] [<ffffffff810f08d4>]
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x714/0x730
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500036] [<ffffffff81048161>] ?
get_parent_ip+0x11/0x50
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500039] [<ffffffff81121f09>]
alloc_pages_current+0x99/0x100
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500042] [<ffffffff810ef81e>]
__get_free_pages+0xe/0x50
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500045] [<ffffffff81058974>]
copy_process+0xe4/0x1130
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500048] [<ffffffff81107d75>] ?
handle_mm_fault+0x1c5/0xab0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500051] [<ffffffff81059a54>]
do_fork+0x94/0x450
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500053] [<ffffffff81048161>] ?
get_parent_ip+0x11/0x50
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500056] [<ffffffff81048161>] ?
get_parent_ip+0x11/0x50
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500058] [<ffffffff8152204d>] ?
sub_preempt_count+0x9d/0xd0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500061] [<ffffffff81521d3a>] ?
do_page_fault+0x15a/0x3d0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500064] [<ffffffff810137d5>]
sys_vfork+0x25/0x30
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500068] [<ffffffff8100b453>]
stub_vfork+0x13/0x20
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500070] [<ffffffff8100b0f2>] ?
system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500072] Mem-Info:
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500074] Node 0 DMA per-cpu:
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500076] CPU 0: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500077] CPU 1: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500079] CPU 2: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500080] CPU 3: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500081] CPU 4: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500083] CPU 5: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500084] CPU 6: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500086] CPU 7: hi: 0,
btch: 1 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500087] Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu:
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500089] CPU 0: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500090] CPU 1: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500091] CPU 2: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500093] CPU 3: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500094] CPU 4: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500096] CPU 5: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500097] CPU 6: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500098] CPU 7: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500100] Node 0 Normal per-cpu:
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500101] CPU 0: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500103] CPU 1: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500104] CPU 2: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500106] CPU 3: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500107] CPU 4: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500108] CPU 5: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500110] CPU 6: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500111] CPU 7: hi: 186,
btch: 31 usd: 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500115] active_anon:25887
inactive_anon:5496 isolated_anon:32
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500115] active_file:0
inactive_file:0 isolated_file:61
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500116] unevictable:4 dirty:60
writeback:0 unstable:0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500117] free:117962
slab_reclaimable:8356 slab_unreclaimable:6052
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500117] mapped:1 shmem:37
pagetables:6226 bounce:0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500119] Node 0 DMA free:15812kB
min:20kB low:24kB high:28kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB
active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB
isolated(file):0kB present:15696kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB
mapped:0kB shmem:0kB slab_reclaimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:16kB
kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB
writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500126] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2991 8041 8041
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500129] Node 0 DMA32
free:200664kB min:4264kB low:5328kB high:6396kB active_anon:120kB
inactive_anon:32kB active_file:4kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB
isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:3063456kB mlocked:0kB
dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:0kB shmem:0kB slab_reclaimable:5060kB
slab_unreclaimable:244kB kernel_stack:240kB pagetables:672kB
unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0
all_unreclaimable? no
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500136] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 5050 5050
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500139] Node 0 Normal
free:255372kB min:7200kB low:9000kB high:10800kB active_anon:103428kB
inactive_anon:21952kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB
unevictable:16kB isolated(anon):128kB isolated(file):244kB
present:5171200kB mlocked:16kB dirty:240kB writeback:0kB mapped:4kB
shmem:148kB slab_reclaimable:28364kB slab_unreclaimable:23948kB
kernel_stack:3008kB pagetables:24232kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB
writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500147] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500150] Node 0 DMA: 1*4kB 0*8kB
0*16kB 2*32kB 2*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB
3*4096kB = 15812kB
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500157] Node 0 DMA32: 49660*4kB
14*8kB 4*16kB 6*32kB 1*64kB 2*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB
0*4096kB = 200864kB
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500165] Node 0 Normal: 63050*4kB
5*8kB 5*16kB 9*32kB 1*64kB 2*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB
0*4096kB = 255744kB
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500172] 81 total pagecache pages
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500173] 107 pages in swap cache
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500175] Swap cache stats: add
64583476, delete 64583369, find 5037944/13158563
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500176] Free swap = 4kB
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500177] Total swap = 1986556kB
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.515738] 2097136 pages RAM
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.515740] 50310 pages reserved
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.515742] 322 pages shared
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.515743] 1928184 pages non-shared
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.515746] Out of memory: kill
process 1446 (gnome-session) score 164464 or a child
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.515750] Killed process 1481
(ssh-agent) vsz:11976kB, anon-rss:28kB, file-rss:0kB
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.534292] collect2 invoked
oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=1, oom_adj=0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.534296] collect2 cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
Jun 5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.534299] Pid: 8067, comm:
collect2 Not tainted 2.6.35-rc1+ #3

.....

It continued killing off 420 processes but the free memory didnt increase.
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From: KOSAKI Motohiro on
> I left a 2.6.35-rc1 system, ubuntu 10.4/64 building randconfigs in a
> ramdisk overnight.
> /dev/ram0 9842848 5141780 4201068 56% /media/ramdisk

your total memory size is 8GB, but ramdisk size is 9.8GB. it's odd settings.

>
> After about 3 hours oom killer started killing nearly all the
> processes, but the memory is still not released. Could ramdisk cause
> this? How can I find out what is still using all the memory?

Could.
but I'm unclear your case was happen by only ramdisk.
Can you remove such ramdisk at once?

>
> cat /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal: 8187304 kB
> MemFree: 231976 kB
> Buffers: 424 kB
> Cached: 19728 kB
> SwapCached: 51144 kB
> Active: 14056 kB
> Inactive: 72592 kB
> Active(anon): 12900 kB
> Inactive(anon): 53940 kB
> Active(file): 1156 kB
> Inactive(file): 18652 kB
> Unevictable: 0 kB
> Mlocked: 0 kB
> SwapTotal: 1986556 kB
> SwapFree: 1504676 kB
> Dirty: 0 kB
> Writeback: 19720 kB
> AnonPages: 32884 kB
> Mapped: 4760 kB
> Shmem: 4 kB
> Slab: 51652 kB
> SReclaimable: 28816 kB
> SUnreclaim: 22836 kB
> KernelStack: 2880 kB
> PageTables: 18484 kB
> NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
> Bounce: 0 kB
> WritebackTmp: 0 kB
> CommitLimit: 6080208 kB
> Committed_AS: 1133944 kB
> VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
> VmallocUsed: 350936 kB
> VmallocChunk: 34359369212 kB
> HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB
> HugePages_Total: 0
> HugePages_Free: 0
> HugePages_Rsvd: 0
> HugePages_Surp: 0
> Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
> DirectMap4k: 7616 kB
> DirectMap2M: 8372224 kB



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From: Andrew Hendry on
Yes I made a mistake setting up ramdisk too big, but not sure why it
allowed me to set it up like that.
I think after ramdisk used all the memory, even after unmounting then
other processes still cannot use it.
oom killer gets very aggressive but cannot fix problem.

I have updated to rc3 and will test again on weekend. I will turn on
mem leak checker, is there anything else i should configure?

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:00 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro
<kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> I left a 2.6.35-rc1 system, ubuntu 10.4/64 building randconfigs in a
>> ramdisk overnight.
>> /dev/ram0 � � � � � � �9842848 � 5141780 � 4201068 �56% /media/ramdisk
>
> your total memory size is 8GB, but ramdisk size is 9.8GB. it's odd settings.
>
>>
>> After about 3 hours oom killer started killing nearly all the
>> processes, but the memory is still not released. Could ramdisk cause
>> this? How can I find out what is still using all the memory?
>
> Could.
> but I'm unclear your case was happen by only ramdisk.
> Can you remove such ramdisk at once?
>
>>
>> cat /proc/meminfo
>> MemTotal: � � � �8187304 kB
>> MemFree: � � � � �231976 kB
>> Buffers: � � � � � � 424 kB
>> Cached: � � � � � �19728 kB
>> SwapCached: � � � �51144 kB
>> Active: � � � � � �14056 kB
>> Inactive: � � � � �72592 kB
>> Active(anon): � � �12900 kB
>> Inactive(anon): � �53940 kB
>> Active(file): � � � 1156 kB
>> Inactive(file): � �18652 kB
>> Unevictable: � � � � � 0 kB
>> Mlocked: � � � � � � � 0 kB
>> SwapTotal: � � � 1986556 kB
>> SwapFree: � � � �1504676 kB
>> Dirty: � � � � � � � � 0 kB
>> Writeback: � � � � 19720 kB
>> AnonPages: � � � � 32884 kB
>> Mapped: � � � � � � 4760 kB
>> Shmem: � � � � � � � � 4 kB
>> Slab: � � � � � � �51652 kB
>> SReclaimable: � � �28816 kB
>> SUnreclaim: � � � �22836 kB
>> KernelStack: � � � �2880 kB
>> PageTables: � � � �18484 kB
>> NFS_Unstable: � � � � �0 kB
>> Bounce: � � � � � � � �0 kB
>> WritebackTmp: � � � � �0 kB
>> CommitLimit: � � 6080208 kB
>> Committed_AS: � �1133944 kB
>> VmallocTotal: � 34359738367 kB
>> VmallocUsed: � � �350936 kB
>> VmallocChunk: � 34359369212 kB
>> HardwareCorrupted: � � 0 kB
>> HugePages_Total: � � � 0
>> HugePages_Free: � � � �0
>> HugePages_Rsvd: � � � �0
>> HugePages_Surp: � � � �0
>> Hugepagesize: � � � 2048 kB
>> DirectMap4k: � � � �7616 kB
>> DirectMap2M: � � 8372224 kB
>
>
>
>
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From: KOSAKI Motohiro on
> Yes I made a mistake setting up ramdisk too big, but not sure why it
> allowed me to set it up like that.

Sorry, I don't know the reason.

> I think after ramdisk used all the memory, even after unmounting then
> other processes still cannot use it.
> oom killer gets very aggressive but cannot fix problem.
>
> I have updated to rc3 and will test again on weekend. I will turn on
> mem leak checker, is there anything else i should configure?

Probably nothing.

Thanks.


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