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<body dir="ltr">Is your ram fully functional? Memtest results are 100% perfect?<br><br>Cgroups can direct oomkiller to odd locations.<br><br>Strange problem.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On August 21, 2020 8:33:17 PM EDT, Chris Fowler via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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I just enabled 500M of swap on the device, but it does not use disk. I uses a zram device. The kernel configured 500M of compressed ram for the use of swap. The oom program was able to grab 134 chunks before watchdog restarted. That's 1.3G. Is my kernel
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 21, 2020 8:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ALE <ale@ale.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ale] Free is not showing me correct used memory</font>
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I've ran into an issue on a device which runs out of memory, but it refuses to panic on OOM. This creates a DOS affect. No SSH to the device, but I am still able to ping it. After reboot messages in syslog show the device has ran out of memory. Kernel is
2.,6.38 and system is 32bit.<br>
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I followed instructions on the URL below to test OOM panic. I compiled an ran the program to test. On a system with kernel 5.6.0 the OOM panics and system is restarted. It works, but on the problem device it is as if the OOM is not fully aware. free, /proc/meminfo,
vmstat, etc do not show memory usage skyrocketing as it does on the other system.</div>
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Free on the problem device before I run the program:</div>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">[root@basement]# free</span>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace"> total used free shared buffers cached</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">Mem: 1964728 235380 1729348 0 12064 55388</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">-/+ buffers/cache: 167928 1796800</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">Swap: 0 0 0</span></div>
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Now, I run it and it is able to allocate 82 chunks at 10M each before malloc() failed:<br>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">[root@basement]# oom</span><br>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">Allocated 82 chunks.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">Sleeping 60(s) before exiting.</span></div>
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<div>In another xterm I'll run free while oom is waiting to exit. Once it exits, all that memory is freed. No change.<br>
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<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">[root@basement]# free</span>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace"> total used free shared buffers cached</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">Mem: 1964728 236380 1728348 0 12112 55388</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">-/+ buffers/cache: 168880 1795848</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">Swap: 0 0 0</span></div>
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<div>If I run oom in another window it will only grab 2 chunks before failure. Also, watchdog is configured to restart if it can't allocate 20M of memory. Watchdog will restart the device because it is unable to grab it.</div>
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The system itself has 2G of RAM. <br>
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If that program was able to allocate 82x10 820M of RAM why did that not show up as used memory? Now, I'm curious as to why Iw as only able to allocate 830M if there is 1.7GB free?
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Below is grep 'MEM' config:</div>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace"># CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR is not set</span>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_SHMEM=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_X86_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace"># CONFIG_MEMTEST is not set</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace"># CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace"># CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace"># CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_MANUAL is not set</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_FLATMEM=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_STATIC=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace"># CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE is not set</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace"># CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UMEM is not set</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_INPUT_FF_MEMLESS=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_DEVKMEM=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_FIX_EARLYCON_MEM=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace"># CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_TIMERIOMEM is not set</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace"># CONFIG_MEMSTICK is not set</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace"># CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK is not set</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace"># CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM is not set</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace"># CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is not set</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK=y</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace"># CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is not set</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_ASYNC_MEMCPY=y</span></div>
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM=y</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G=y </span>
<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace"># CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G_OPT is not set
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<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace"># CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G is not set
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<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace"># CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G_OPT is not set
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<div><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace"># CONFIG_VMSPLIT_1G is not set
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace">CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET=0xC0000000 </span>
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