Ubuntu
kdepim package

korgac invoked oom-killer

Bug #165143 reported by Ace Suares on 2007-11-26

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	kdepim (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Hmmm... my system became slower, then froze, then X restarted.
This was in /var/log/syslog:

Nov 26 05:04:59 desktop kernel: [488363.366691] korgac invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0, oomkilladj=0
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.366714] [out_of_memory+389/448] out_of_memory+0x185/0x1c0
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.366765] [__alloc_pages+740/832] __alloc_pages+0x2e4/0x340
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.366782] [__wake_up+56/80] __wake_up+0x38/0x50
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.366827] [__do_page_cache_readahead+265/592] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x109/0x250
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.366833] [<f89ec250>] ext3_get_block+0x0/0x100 [ext3]
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.366875] [io_schedule+29/48] io_schedule+0x1d/0x30
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.366889] [__wait_on_bit_lock+91/112] __wait_on_bit_lock+0x5b/0x70
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.366892] [sync_page+0/80] sync_page+0x0/0x50
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.366939] [filemap_nopage+341/832] filemap_nopage+0x155/0x340
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.366982] [__handle_mm_fault+328/2816] __handle_mm_fault+0x148/0xb00
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367008] [__switch_to+170/464] __switch_to+0xaa/0x1d0
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367054] [do_page_fault+294/1680] do_page_fault+0x126/0x690
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367102] [do_page_fault+0/1680] do_page_fault+0x0/0x690
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367109] [error_code+114/128] error_code+0x72/0x80
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367135] [clip_ioctl+1280/1296] clip_ioctl+0x500/0x510
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367159] =======================
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367160] Mem-info:
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367162] DMA per-cpu:
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367164] CPU 0: Hot: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367166] CPU 1: Hot: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367168] Normal per-cpu:
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367170] CPU 0: Hot: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 166 Cold: hi: 62, btch: 15 usd: 2
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367172] CPU 1: Hot: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 172 Cold: hi: 62, btch: 15 usd: 2
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367174] HighMem per-cpu:
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367175] CPU 0: Hot: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 107 Cold: hi: 62, btch: 15 usd: 54
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367177] CPU 1: Hot: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 108 Cold: hi: 62, btch: 15 usd: 31
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367180] Active:728364 inactive:4831 dirty:4 writeback:0 unstable:0
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367181] free:29601 slab:5653 mapped:197 pagetables:1874 bounce:0
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367184] DMA free:12472kB min:68kB low:84kB high:100kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:16256kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? yes
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367186] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 873 4048
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367190] Normal free:105444kB min:3744kB low:4680kB high:5616kB active:720028kB inactive:3104kB present:894080kB pages_scanned:1090276 all_unreclaimable? yes
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367192] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 25400
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367196] HighMem free:488kB min:512kB low:3916kB high:7324kB active:2193428kB inactive:16220kB present:3251200kB pages_scanned:9880030 all_unreclaimable? yes
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367198] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367200] DMA: 6*4kB 10*8kB 5*16kB 6*32kB 7*64kB 5*128kB 5*256kB 1*512kB 3*1024kB 1*2048kB 1*4096kB = 12472kB
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367207] Normal: 29*4kB 9*8kB 2236*16kB 1282*32kB 247*64kB 52*128kB 5*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 1*4096kB = 105340kB
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367214] HighMem: 30*4kB 12*8kB 3*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 488kB
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367221] Swap cache: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0, race 0+0
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367222] Free swap = 0kB
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367223] Total swap = 0kB
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.367224] Free swap: 0kB
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.375705] 1048576 pages of RAM
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.375707] 819200 pages of HIGHMEM
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.375708] 271978 reserved pages
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.375709] 15678 pages shared
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.375711] 0 pages swap cached
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.375712] 4 pages dirty
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.375713] 0 pages writeback
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.375714] 197 pages mapped
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.375715] 5653 pages slab
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.375716] 1874 pages pagetables
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.375925] Out of memory: kill process 23495 (sh) score 212189 or a child
Nov 26 05:05:01 desktop kernel: [488363.375931] Killed process 23496 (java)

cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 7.10 \n \l

uname -a
Linux sheerluck 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

dpkg-query -l korganizer
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-================-================-================================================
ii korganizer 4:3.5.7enterpris KDE personal organizer

Revision history for this message

Luka Renko (lure) wrote on 2008-01-19:

This does not mean that it was korgac using the memory, just that it was it's allocation that caused oom-killer to start killing some processes. If this is repeating, you should investigate with top which processes are actually using most of the memory. If you find out that it is korgac using extensive amount of memory, feel free to reopen the bug.

Changed in kdepim:
status:	New → Invalid

Revision history for this message

Teodor Sobczak (teodor-sobczak) wrote on 2009-02-20:

message.log Edit (5.3 KiB, text/plain)

I would like to reopen that issue.
Running ubuntu 8.10
kernel is 2.6.27.11

Same thing. Something is invoking oom-killer constantly. No abnormal activity on system monitor. No system freeze(at least not because of that problem... I think. look at my post https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/331477 for more info).

In attachment part of my log from night computer activity. Highest memory usage processes were transmision and avant window navigator. Nothing else. My log is full of oom-killer rampaging my system. In the morning I had several application crashed(network manager, fast user switch applet) and some just killed like avant window navigator. I still have issue with gnome session commands.

Really I can't imagine how can programs like transmision or awn cause something like this.