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From: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [question] how to figure out OOM reason? should dump slab/vmalloc info when OOM?
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:36:35 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52DCFC33.80008@huawei.com> (raw)

When OOM happen, will dump buddy free areas info, hugetlb pages info,
memory state of all eligible tasks, per-cpu memory info.
But do not dump slab/vmalloc info, sometime, it's not enough to figure out the
reason OOM happened.

So, my questions are:
1. Should dump slab/vmalloc info when OOM happen? Though we can get these from proc file,
but usually we do not monitor the logs and check proc file immediately when OOM happened.

2. /proc/$pid/smaps and pagecache info also helpful when OOM, should also be dumped?

3. Without these info, usually how to figure out OOM reason?

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             reply	other threads:[~2014-01-20 10:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-20 10:36 Jianguo Wu [this message]
2014-01-21  5:34 ` David Rientjes
2014-01-21 12:40   ` Jianguo Wu
2014-01-21 20:41     ` David Rientjes
2014-02-11  4:06       ` Jianguo Wu
2014-02-12  0:28         ` David Rientjes

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