Re: 4.8.8 kernel trigger OOM killer repeatedly when I have lots of RAM that should be free

[Michal Hocko]

On Mon 01-05-17 21:12:35, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> Well, sadly, the problem is more or less back is 4.11.0. The system doesn't really 
> crash but it goes into an infinite loop with
> [34776.826800] BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=6 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 stuck for 33s!
> More logs: https://pastebin.com/YqE4riw0

I am seeing a lot of traces where tasks is waiting for an IO. I do not
see any OOM report there. Why do you believe this is an OOM killer
issue?
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs