On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 09:43:06AM -0800, Mark Haverkamp wrote: > > I have a situation where the out of memory killer kicked in and killed > off a process. From the information displayed, it looks like there was > a lot of free memory available. I need some help interpreting the > output. I have included the console output from the oom killer. > > It is running 2.6.11-rc2 and has a patch from Nick Piggin: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110665524811826&w=2 > The machine is running as an iscsi target with 4K luns configured.
What is eating all of your ZONE_DMA? Of the 16MB available > DMA: 55*4kB 4*8kB 2*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB > 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 348kB > DMA free:348kB min:68kB low:84kB high:100kB active:4kB inactive:0kB > present:16384kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no > protections[]: 0 0 0 only 348kB is available, and something is requesting more... > oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd1 (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO|__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_DMA) This isn't a 64-bit architecture (you've got some ZONE_HIGHMEM), so it's not like the x86_64/ia64 iommu. Perhaps a <32-bit DMA address mask PCI device? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
