> CC: "Michal Hocko" <mho...@suse.cz>, "Andrew Morton" > <a...@linux-foundation.org>, "David Rientjes" <rient...@google.com>, > "KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki" <kamezawa.hir...@jp.fujitsu.com>, "KOSAKI Motohiro" > <kosaki.motoh...@jp.fujitsu.com>, linux...@kvack.org, > cgro...@vger.kernel.org, x...@kernel.org, linux-a...@vger.kernel.org, > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:52:46PM +0200, azurIt wrote: >> > CC: "Johannes Weiner" <han...@cmpxchg.org>, "Andrew Morton" >> > <a...@linux-foundation.org>, "David Rientjes" <rient...@google.com>, >> > "KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki" <kamezawa.hir...@jp.fujitsu.com>, "KOSAKI Motohiro" >> > <kosaki.motoh...@jp.fujitsu.com>, linux...@kvack.org, >> > cgro...@vger.kernel.org, x...@kernel.org, linux-a...@vger.kernel.org, >> > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> >On Mon 16-09-13 17:05:43, azurIt wrote: >> >> > CC: "Johannes Weiner" <han...@cmpxchg.org>, "Andrew Morton" >> >> > <a...@linux-foundation.org>, "David Rientjes" <rient...@google.com>, >> >> > "KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki" <kamezawa.hir...@jp.fujitsu.com>, "KOSAKI Motohiro" >> >> > <kosaki.motoh...@jp.fujitsu.com>, linux...@kvack.org, >> >> > cgro...@vger.kernel.org, x...@kernel.org, linux-a...@vger.kernel.org, >> >> > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> >> >On Mon 16-09-13 16:13:16, azurIt wrote: >> >> >[...] >> >> >> >You can use sysrq+l via serial console to see tasks hogging the CPU or >> >> >> >sysrq+t to see all the existing tasks. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Doesn't work here, it just prints 'l' resp. 't'. >> >> > >> >> >I am using telnet for accessing my serial consoles exported by >> >> >the multiplicator or KVM and it can send sysrq via ctrl+t (Send >> >> >Break). Check your serial console setup. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> I'm using Raritan KVM and i created keyboard macro 'sysrq + l' resp. >> >> 'sysrq + t'. I'm also unable to use it on my local PC. Maybe it needs >> >> to be enabled somehow? >> > >> >Probably yes. echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq should enable all sysrq >> >commands. You can select also some of them (have a look at >> >Documentation/sysrq.txt for more information) >> >> >> Now it happens again and i was just looking on the server's >> htop. I'm sure that this time it was only one process (apache) >> running under user account (not root). It was taking about 100% CPU >> (about 100% of one core). I was able to kill it by hand inside htop >> but everything was very slow, server load was immediately on >> 500. I'm sure it must be related to that Johannes kernel patches >> because i'm also using i/o throttling in cgroups via Block IO >> controller so users are unable to create such a huge I/O. I will try >> to take stacks of processes but i'm not able to identify the >> problematic process so i will have to take them from *all* apache >> processes while killing them. > >It would be fantastic if you could capture those stacks. sysrq+t >captures ALL of them in one go and drops them into your syslog. > >/proc/<pid>/stack for individual tasks works too.
Btw, this is how it looked like: http://watchdog.sk/lkml/htop2.jpg azur -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
