Public bug reported: We are seeing this on multiple servers after upgrading from previous 4.10 series HWE kernels to the new 4.13 HWE series. With the new kernel, free memory is continously decreasing at a high rate and the servers start swapping and finally OOMing services within days. With the 4.10 kernel, decrease of free memory is slower and stabilizes after a while.
Latest kernel tested is linux-image-4.13.0-32-generic but the issue also affects older kernels from that series, tested back to linux- image-4.13.0-19-generic. No issue with linux-image-4.10.0-42-generic. The servers are running as OpenStack controller nodes using either Ocata or Pike UCA plus ceph. See attached graph for the memory behaviour. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: linux-image-4.13.0-32-generic 4.13.0-32.35~16.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-32.35~16.04.1-generic 4.13.13 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-32-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Feb 9 09:45:50 2018 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US: TERM=screen PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: linux-hwe UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: linux-hwe (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug third-party-packages xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1748408 Title: Servers going OOM after updating kernel from 4.10 to 4.13 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-hwe/+bug/1748408/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs