[ale] Badness in out_of_memory/oom_kill.c

[pras at cycloeastern.com]

I think the problem is occuring in Rik's OOM process killer.

What is the output of 

vmstat -a
swapon -?(I dont remember, but its a flag that shows swap utilization )
cat /proc/meminfo

These might provide a clue.

-Prasanna



On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:46:32AM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> Where should I report this kernel issue?
> 
> I'm pretty sure there are several mailing-lists associated with the
> kernel, and I don't know which one would be best for this.  (Or maybe
> just to SuSE, since it is there 2.6.8 kernel).
> 
> ===
> I can repeatedly cause the below in /var/log/warn, and my command
> reports terminated.
> 
> Jan  6 10:42:01 tapeserver kernel: Badness in out_of_memory at mm/oom_kill.c:252
> Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c0139492>] out_of_memory+0x22/0xc0
> Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c0140f71>] try_to_free_pages+0x181/0x190
> Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c013a5ff>] __alloc_pages+0x28f/0x3b0
> Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c013cf7c>]
> do_page_cache_readahead+0xec/0x130
> Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c01375af>] filemap_nopage+0x23f/0x310
> Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c014414e>] do_no_page+0x9e/0x270
> Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c01444d2>] handle_mm_fault+0xf2/0x120
> Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c01179d7>] do_page_fault+0x1c7/0x5bf
> Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c0117810>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x5bf
> Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c0106d9d>] error_code+0x2d/0x40
> Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c016129a>] poll_freewait+0x3a/0x50
> Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c0161ee0>] sys_poll+0x150/0x220
> Jan  6 10:42:20 tapeserver kernel:  [<c01612b0>] __pollwait+0x0/0xa0
> Jan  6 10:42:21 tapeserver kernel:  [<c0117810>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x5bf
> Jan  6 10:42:21 tapeserver kernel:  [<c0106d9d>] error_code+0x2d/0x40
> 
> I have 256 MB of RAM on an Intel machine, and I am issueing the
> userspace command dosfsck /dev/hdc1.  hdc1 is a 250 GB FAT32 partition
> with 200+ GB of data on it.
> 
> Thanks
> Greg
> -- 
> Greg Freemyer
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