>>> On 12/30/2009 at  5:48 PM, "Rodery, Floyd A Mr CIV US DISA CDB12"
<[email protected]> wrote: 
> We've noticed some repetitive error messages in regards to a memory
> issue on one of our SLES 10 SP2.  We notice the error below every
> morning around the same time, with multiple oom-kills of oracle, perl,
> etc.  Anyone have any thoughts as to why this might be happening with
> the amount of memory this guest has?  If you have any thoughts or need
> anymore information, I would certainly appreciate it.
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> Dec 27 04:37:34 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: Mem-info:
> Dec 27 04:37:34 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: DMA per-cpu:
> Dec 27 04:37:34 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: CPU    0: Hot: hi:  186, btch:
> 31 usd: 159   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  58
> Dec 27 04:37:34 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: CPU    1: Hot: hi:  186, btch:
> 31 usd: 156   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  27
> Dec 27 04:37:34 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: Normal per-cpu:
> Dec 27 04:37:34 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: CPU    0: Hot: hi:  186, btch:
> 31 usd: 151   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  56
> Dec 27 04:37:34 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: CPU    1: Hot: hi:  186, btch:
> 31 usd: 165   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  14
> Dec 27 04:37:34 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: Free pages:       21488kB (0kB
> HighMem)
> Dec 27 04:37:34 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: Active:832717 inactive:260329
> dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:5372 slab:14827 mapped:650
> pagetables:14672
> 2
> Dec 27 04:37:34 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: DMA free:16016kB min:3660kB
> low:4572kB high:5488kB active:807232kB inactive:896400kB
> present:2097152kB pages_
> scanned:3937815 all_unreclaimable? yes
> Dec 27 04:37:34 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 3072 3072
> Dec 27 04:37:34 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: Normal free:5472kB min:5492kB
> low:6864kB high:8236kB active:2523636kB inactive:144916kB
> present:3145728kB pag
> es_scanned:7066898 all_unreclaimable? yes
> Dec 27 04:37:34 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
> Dec 27 04:37:34 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: DMA: 1260*4kB 1258*8kB 1*16kB
> 0*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB =
> 16016kB
> Dec 27 04:37:34 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: Normal: 10*4kB 507*8kB 0*16kB
> 1*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB =
> 5472kB
> Dec 27 04:37:34 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: Swap cache: add 31963696, delete
> 31964356, find 17660088/21209122, race 8+295
> Dec 27 04:37:34 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: Free swap  = 0kB
> Dec 27 04:37:35 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: Total swap = 2352736kB
> Dec 27 04:37:35 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: Free swap:            0kB
> Dec 27 04:37:35 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: 1310720 pages of RAM
> Dec 27 04:37:35 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: 26207 reserved pages
> Dec 27 04:37:35 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: 66904 pages shared
> Dec 27 04:37:35 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: 352 pages swap cached
> Dec 27 04:37:35 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 26578
> (oracle) score 48132 and children.
> Dec 27 04:37:35 *SERVER NAME*  kernel: Out of memory: Killed process
> 26578 (oracle).

This says that at the time OOM was invoked, you had no free paging slots (Free 
swap  = 0kB), no free memory (0kB HighMem), and no memory that could be 
reclaimed (all_unreclaimable? yes).  What kicks off at that time of day?  Some 
sort of Oracle housekeeping processes?


Mark Post

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