Re: Found the commit that causes the OOMs

[KOSAKI Motohiro]

> > > What is "hidden" anon pages?
> > > each shrink_{in}active_list isolate 32 pages from lru. it mean anon or file lru
> > > accounting decrease temporary.
> > > 
> > > if system have plenty thread or process, heavy memory pressure makes 
> > > #-of-thread x 32pages isolation.
> > > 
> > > msgctl11 makes >10K processes.
> > 
> > More exactly, ~16K processes:
> > 
> >         msgctl11    0  INFO  :  Using upto 16298 pids
> > 
> > So the maximum number of isolated pages is 16K * 32 = 512K, or 2GiB.
> > 
> > > I have debugging patch for this case.
> > > Wu, Can you please try this patch?
> > 
> > OK. But the OOM is not quite reproducible. Sometimes it produces these
> > messages:
> 
> This time I got the OOM: there are 69817 isolated pages (just as expected)!
> 
(snip)

> [ 1522.019259] Active_anon:11 active_file:6 inactive_anon:0
> [ 1522.019260]  inactive_file:0 unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
> [ 1522.019261]  free:1985 slab:44399 mapped:132 pagetables:61830 bounce:0
> [ 1522.019262]  isolate:69817

OK. thanks.
I plan to submit this patch after small more tests. it is useful for OOM analysis.




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