Unfortunately it did not.  It continued to grow and grow until oom
killed in a loop.  We're supposed to have a max size of 512MB per VM.
Last time i did any WAS stuff was on Linux but on version 3 when it
was new.. a long time ago.

top - 14:04:46 up  2:09,  5 users,  load average: 60.09, 18.03, 6.96

Tasks: 144 total,   2 running, 142 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie

Cpu(s): 30.9%us, 67.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.2%hi,  0.1%si,  1.8%st

Mem:   8220492k total,  8183456k used,    37036k free,      680k buffers

Swap:   779880k total,   779880k used,        0k free,    54288k cached



  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND

 4520 wasadmin  20   0 1178m 576m 4460 S  107  7.2  11:59.54 java

 8943 wasadmin  20   0  566m 254m 4372 S   15  3.2   2:11.86 java

10326 wasadmin  20   0  581m 220m 4224 S   15  2.7   2:01.12 java

 9678 wasadmin  20   0  563m 297m  20m S   15  3.7   2:11.54 java

 4368 wasadmin  20   0 1148m 603m 2848 S   13  7.5  11:55.56 java

 9321 wasadmin  20   0  597m 262m 4720 S   10  3.3   2:15.96 java

11107 wasadmin  20   0  555m 272m 4048 S   10  3.4   2:02.47 java

10706 wasadmin  20   0  509m 241m 2720 S    9  3.0   2:05.35 java

 4920 wasadmin  20   0  540m 228m 3296 S    8  2.8   2:20.82 java

 5298 wasadmin  20   0  586m 253m 2792 S    8  3.2   2:06.52 java

 7794 wasadmin  20   0  594m 307m 4644 S    7  3.8   2:06.89 java

 6021 wasadmin  20   0  542m 208m 2908 S    5  2.6   1:53.18 java

 6205 wasadmin  20   0  562m 226m 2980 S    5  2.8   1:57.61 java

 7265 wasadmin  20   0  517m 218m 2888 S    4  2.7   1:51.77 java

 9992 wasadmin  20   0  624m 223m 2896 S    4  2.8   2:07.83 java

 5481 wasadmin  20   0  707m 254m 4516 S    3  3.2   2:28.43 java

 6390 wasadmin  20   0  509m 167m 3672 S    3  2.1   2:13.46 java

 7516 wasadmin  20   0  531m 272m 2272 S    3  3.4   2:05.57 java

11502 wasadmin  20   0  483m 207m 2772 S    3  2.6   1:17.93 java

12248 wasadmin  20   0  520m 203m 3544 S    3  2.5   1:22.76 java

 6805 wasadmin  20   0  577m 254m 2980 S    3  3.2   2:08.65 java

 5657 wasadmin  20   0  572m 262m  22m S    1  3.3   2:12.52 java

 8615 wasadmin  20   0  574m 255m 2792 S    1  3.2   2:12.48 java

 5068 wasadmin  20   0  580m 243m 2560 S    0  3.0   2:11.30 java

 6586 wasadmin  20   0  580m 220m 3112 S    0  2.8   2:08.78 java

 7036 wasadmin  20   0  664m 244m 2504 S    0  3.0   2:02.78 java

 8066 wasadmin  20   0  578m 233m 3128 S    0  2.9   1:58.66 java

11924 wasadmin  20   0  542m 203m 4780 S    0  2.5   1:21.65 java

 4052 wasadmin  20   0  9968 2624 1188 S    0  0.0   0:00.15 bash

 5008 wasadmin  20   0  6900 1748 1028 S    0  0.0   0:23.92 top

 5181 wasadmin  20   0  9972 2724 1192 S    0  0.0   0:00.22 bash

 5839 wasadmin  20   0  696m 217m 2716 S    0  2.7   1:54.87 java

 8347 wasadmin  20   0  528m 242m  22m S    0  3.0   1:55.78 java





On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Marcy Cortes
<[email protected]> wrote:
> WAS calls non-heap memory "native".
> That's what you seem to be using up.
> Look at this http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21373312
> And if these things don't help, open a PMR with WAS support.
> Did it stabilize at 18G?
> The panic_on_oom is a good idea - you can then get a dump (set up a linux 
> dump volume if you are in a hurry - the VMDUMP command takes all day :)
>
>
> Marcy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel 
> Tate
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 7:53 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning 
> problems?
>
> Yes, but no memory ever gets freed.  The system stops responding and
> is too busy dumping information to the console screen to respond to
> anything at the console or network.
>
> And a system-wide panic would provide me with a core file to analyze
> and send off; though the progress we've made thanks to this group has
> helped a bit (swappiness = 0) has helped it remain stable longer..
> right now we're using 18GB of swap instead of the 35 we were before.
> i haven't tried panic_on_oom, but thats a good idea and i was
> braindead not to think of it.
>
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Shane G <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Some more info please.
>> ... you get a OOM condition ?.
>> ... the/a large consumer gets killed ?
>> ... the system "halts" (explain) ?.
>>
>> You *want* a system-wide panic ?. If so, setting /proc/sys/vm/panic_on_oom 
>> to "1" will
>> have the desired effect on non zLinux.
>>
>> Shane ...
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 27th, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Daniel Tate <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> When websphere starts, it consumes all the memory eventually and
>>> halts, but not panics, the system.
>> <snip> ...
>>> At this point i see two problems:
>>>
>>> 1) Why is OOM Kill not functioning properly
>>
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