Public bug reported: We recently noticed that a busy xenial IMAP server with about 22 days uptime has been logging a lot of OOM messages. The machine has 24G of memory. Below please find some typical memory info.
I noted that there was about 11G of memory allocated to slab, and since all of the oom-killer invoked messages report order=2 or order=3 (see below for gfp_flags) I thought that maybe fragmentation was a factor. After doing echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches to release reclaimable slab memory, no OOMs were logged for around 30 minutes, but then they started up again, although perhaps not as frequently as before, and the amount of memory in slab was back up around its former size. To the best of my knowledge we do not have any custom VM-related sysctl tweaks on this machine. Attached please find version.log and lspci-vnvn.log. And here's a link to a kern.log from a little before time of boot onwards, containing all of the oom-killer messages: https://people.canonical.com/~pjdc/grenadilla-sanitized-kern.log.xz == Breakdown of Failed Allocations === pjdc@grenadilla:~$ grep -o 'gfp_mask=.*, order=.' kern.log-version-with-oom-killer-invoked | sort | uniq -c | sort -n 1990 gfp_mask=0x26000c0, order=2 4043 gfp_mask=0x240c0c0, order=3 pjdc@grenadilla:~$ _ == Representative (Probably) Memory Info == pjdc@grenadilla:~$ free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 24097 1762 213 266 22121 21087 Swap: 17492 101 17391 pjdc@grenadilla:~$ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 24676320 kB MemFree: 219440 kB MemAvailable: 21593416 kB Buffers: 6186648 kB Cached: 4255608 kB SwapCached: 3732 kB Active: 7593140 kB Inactive: 4404824 kB Active(anon): 1319736 kB Inactive(anon): 508544 kB Active(file): 6273404 kB Inactive(file): 3896280 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB SwapTotal: 17912436 kB SwapFree: 17808972 kB Dirty: 524 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 1553244 kB Mapped: 219868 kB Shmem: 272576 kB Slab: 12209796 kB SReclaimable: 11572836 kB SUnreclaim: 636960 kB KernelStack: 14464 kB PageTables: 54864 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 30250596 kB Committed_AS: 2640808 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 0 kB VmallocChunk: 0 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 18432 kB CmaTotal: 0 kB CmaFree: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 2371708 kB DirectMap2M: 22784000 kB pjdc@grenadilla:~$ ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Confirmed ** Attachment added: "version.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1662378/+attachment/4814447/+files/version.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1662378 Title: many OOMs on busy xenial IMAP server with lots of available memory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1662378/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
