Re: oomkillers gone wild.

From: David Rientjes
Date: Fri Jun 08 2012 - 16:15:58 EST


On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Dave Jones wrote:

> Still doesn't seem right..
>
> eg..
>
> [42309.542776] [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss cpu oom_adj oom_score_adj name
> ..
> [42309.553933] [ 500] 81 500 5435 1 4 -13 -900 dbus-daemon
> ..
> [42309.597531] [ 9054] 1000 9054 528677 14540 3 0 0 trinity-child3
> ..
>
> [42309.643057] Out of memory: Kill process 500 (dbus-daemon) score 511952 or sacrifice child
> [42309.643620] Killed process 500 (dbus-daemon) total-vm:21740kB, anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:4kB
>
> and a slew of similar 'wrong process' death spiral kills follows..
>

On a system not under oom conditions, i.e. before you start trinity, can
you send the output of

cat /proc/$(pidof dbus-daemon)/oom_score{_adj,}
grep RSS /proc/$(pidof dbus-daemon)/status
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