** Description changed: - I recently replaced some Xenial servers, and started experiencing "Out - of memory" problems with the default kernel. + After a fix for LP#1647400, a bug that caused freezes under some + workloads, some users noticed regular OOMs. Those regular OOMs were + reported under this bug, and fixed after some releases. + + Some of the affected kernels are documented below. In order to check + your particular kernel, read its changelog and lookup for 1655842 and + 1647400. If it has the fix for 1647400, but not the fix for 1655842, + then it's affected. + + It's still possible that you notice regressions compared to kernels that + didn't have the fixes for any of the bugs. However, reverting all fixes + would cause the freeze bug to come back. So, it's not a possible + solution moving forward. + + If you see any regressions, in the form of OOMs, mainly, please report a + new bug. Different workloads may require different solutions, and it's + possible that further fixes are needed, be them upstream or not. The + best way to get such fixes applied is reporting that under a new bug, + one that can be verified, so being able to reproduce the bug makes it + possible to verify the fixes really fix the identified bug. + + Kernels affected: + + linux 4.4.0-58, 4.4.0-59, 4.4.0-60, 4.4.0-61, 4.4.0-62. + linux-raspi2 4.4.0-1039 to 4.4.0-1042 and 4.4.0-1044 to 4.4.0-1071 + + + Particular kernels NOT affected by THIS bug: + + linux-aws + + To reiterate, if you find an OOM with an affected kernel, please upgrade. + If you find an OOM with a non-affected kernel, please report a new bug. We want to investigate it and fix it. + + + =================== + I recently replaced some Xenial servers, and started experiencing "Out of memory" problems with the default kernel. We bake Amazon AMIs based on an official Ubuntu-provided image (ami- e6b58e85, in ap-southeast-2, from https://cloud- images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/). Previous versions of our AMI included "4.4.0-57-generic", but the latest version picked up "4.4.0-59-generic" as part of a "dist-upgrade". Instances booted using the new AMI have been using more memory, and experiencing OOM issues - sometimes during boot, and sometimes a while afterwards. An example from the system log is: [ 130.113411] cloud-init[1560]: Cloud-init v. 0.7.8 running 'modules:final' at Wed, 11 Jan 2017 22:07:53 +0000. Up 29.28 seconds. [ 130.124219] cloud-init[1560]: Cloud-init v. 0.7.8 finished at Wed, 11 Jan 2017 22:09:35 +0000. Datasource DataSourceEc2. Up 130.09 seconds [29871.137128] Out of memory: Kill process 2920 (ruby) score 107 or sacrifice child [29871.140816] Killed process 2920 (ruby) total-vm:675048kB, anon-rss:51184kB, file-rss:2164kB [29871.449209] Out of memory: Kill process 3257 (splunkd) score 97 or sacrifice child [29871.453282] Killed process 3258 (splunkd) total-vm:66272kB, anon-rss:6676kB, file-rss:0kB [29871.677910] Out of memory: Kill process 2647 (fluentd) score 51 or sacrifice child [29871.681872] Killed process 2647 (fluentd) total-vm:117944kB, anon-rss:23956kB, file-rss:1356kB I have a hunch that this may be related to the fix for https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1647400, introduced in linux (4.4.0-58.79). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: linux-image-4.4.0-59-generic 4.4.0-59.80 ProcVersionSignature: User Name 4.4.0-59.80-generic 4.4.35 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-59-generic x86_64 AlsaDevices: total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 Jan 12 06:29 seq crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 Jan 12 06:29 timer AplayDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'aplay' ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4 Architecture: amd64 ArecordDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'arecord' AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1: Date: Thu Jan 12 06:38:45 2017 Ec2AMI: ami-0f93966c Ec2AMIManifest: (unknown) Ec2AvailabilityZone: ap-southeast-2a Ec2InstanceType: t2.nano Ec2Kernel: unavailable Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable IwConfig: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'iwconfig' Lsusb: Error: command ['lsusb'] failed with exit code 1: MachineType: Xen HVM domU PciMultimedia: ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcFB: 0 cirrusdrmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-59-generic root=UUID=fb0fef08-f3c5-40bf-9776-f7ba00fe72be ro console=tty1 console=ttyS0 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-4.4.0-59-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-4.4.0-59-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.157.6 RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'rfkill' SourcePackage: linux UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 12/09/2016 dmi.bios.vendor: Xen dmi.bios.version: 4.2.amazon dmi.chassis.type: 1 dmi.chassis.vendor: Xen dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnXen:bvr4.2.amazon:bd12/09/2016:svnXen:pnHVMdomU:pvr4.2.amazon:cvnXen:ct1:cvr: dmi.product.name: HVM domU dmi.product.version: 4.2.amazon dmi.sys.vendor: Xen
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