Mark,

Currently looking into that, some housekeeping may be contributing.  On
a bigger scale, obviously some adjustments/tuning need to be made to
allow the oracle app and housekeeping tasks to operate within acceptable
server configurations.


#Floyd Rodery
DoD - DISA - DECC MECH
CDB 12 Linux on System z
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Mark Post
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 18:10
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: SLES10 - Oracle/Memory Issues (oom-killer)

>>> 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.
-snip-
> 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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