Re: postgres invoked oom-killer - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Silvio Brandani ha scritto:
> Lacey Powers ha scritto:
>> Silvio Brandani wrote:
>>> We have a postgres 8.3.8 on linux
>>>
>>> We get following messages int /var/log/messages:
>>>
>>> May  6 22:31:01 pgblade02 kernel: postgres invoked oom-killer:
>>> gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0, oomkilladj=0
>>> May  6 22:31:01 pgblade02 kernel:
>>> May  6 22:31:01 pgblade02 kernel: Call Trace:
>>> May  6 22:31:19 pgblade02 kernel:  [<ffffffff800bed05>]
>>> out_of_memory+0x8e/0x2f5
>>> May  6 22:31:19 pgblade02 kernel:  [<ffffffff8000f071>]
>>> __alloc_pages+0x22b/0x2b4
>>> May  6 22:31:19 pgblade02 kernel:  [<ffffffff80012720>]
>>> __do_page_cache_readahead+0x95/0x1d9
>>> May  6 22:31:19 pgblade02 kernel:  [<ffffffff800618e1>]
>>> __wait_on_bit_lock+0x5b/0x66
>>> May  6 22:31:19 pgblade02 kernel:  [<ffffffff881fdc61>]
>>> :dm_mod:dm_any_congested+0x38/0x3f
>>> May  6 22:31:19 pgblade02 kernel:  [<ffffffff800130ab>]
>>> filemap_nopage+0x148/0x322
>>> May  6 22:31:19 pgblade02 kernel:  [<ffffffff800087ed>]
>>> __handle_mm_fault+0x1f8/0xdf4
>>> May  6 22:31:19 pgblade02 kernel:  [<ffffffff80064a6a>]
>>> do_page_fault+0x4b8/0x81d
>>> May  6 22:31:19 pgblade02 kernel:  [<ffffffff80060f29>]
>>> thread_return+0x0/0xeb
>>> May  6 22:31:19 pgblade02 kernel:  [<ffffffff8005bde9>]
>>> error_exit+0x0/0x84
>>> May  6 22:31:27 pgblade02 kernel:
>>> May  6 22:31:28 pgblade02 kernel: Mem-info:
>>> May  6 22:31:28 pgblade02 kernel: Node 0 DMA per-cpu:
>>> May  6 22:31:28 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 0 hot: high 0, batch 1 used:0
>>> May  6 22:31:28 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 0 cold: high 0, batch 1 used:0
>>> May  6 22:31:28 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 1 hot: high 0, batch 1 used:0
>>> May  6 22:31:28 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 1 cold: high 0, batch 1 used:0
>>> May  6 22:31:28 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 2 hot: high 0, batch 1 used:0
>>> May  6 22:31:28 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 2 cold: high 0, batch 1 used:0
>>> May  6 22:31:28 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 3 hot: high 0, batch 1 used:0
>>> May  6 22:31:28 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 3 cold: high 0, batch 1 used:0
>>> May  6 22:31:28 pgblade02 kernel: Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu:
>>> May  6 22:31:28 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 0 hot: high 186, batch 31 used:27
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 0 cold: high 62, batch 15 used:54
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 1 hot: high 186, batch 31 used:23
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 1 cold: high 62, batch 15 used:49
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 2 hot: high 186, batch 31 used:12
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 2 cold: high 62, batch 15 used:14
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 3 hot: high 186, batch 31 used:50
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 3 cold: high 62, batch 15 used:60
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: Node 0 Normal per-cpu:
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 0 hot: high 186, batch 31 used:5
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 0 cold: high 62, batch 15 used:48
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 1 hot: high 186, batch 31 used:11
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 1 cold: high 62, batch 15 used:39
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 2 hot: high 186, batch 31 used:14
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 2 cold: high 62, batch 15 used:57
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 3 hot: high 186, batch 31 used:94
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: cpu 3 cold: high 62, batch 15 used:36
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: Node 0 HighMem per-cpu: empty
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: Free pages:       41788kB (0kB
>>> HighMem)
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: Active:974250 inactive:920579
>>> dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:10447 slab:11470 mapped-file:985
>>> mapped-anon:1848625 pagetables:111027
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: Node 0 DMA free:11172kB min:12kB
>>> low:12kB high:16kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:10816kB
>>> pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? yes
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 3254 8052 8052
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: Node 0 DMA32 free:23804kB
>>> min:4636kB low:5792kB high:6952kB active:1555260kB
>>> inactive:1566144kB present:3332668kB pages_scanned:35703257
>>> all_unreclaimable? yes
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 4797 4797
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: Node 0 Normal free:6812kB
>>> min:6836kB low:8544kB high:10252kB active:2342332kB
>>> inactive:2115836kB present:4912640kB pages_scanned:10165709
>>> all_unreclaimable? yes
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: Node 0 HighMem free:0kB min:128kB
>>> low:128kB high:128kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB
>>> pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: Node 0 DMA: 3*4kB 5*8kB 3*16kB
>>> 6*32kB 4*64kB 3*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 2*1024kB 0*2048kB 2*4096kB =
>>> 11172kB
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: Node 0 DMA32: 27*4kB 0*8kB 1*16kB
>>> 0*32kB 2*64kB 4*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 5*4096kB =
>>> 23804kB
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 ker
>>> if it asks for more memory than is actually available.
>>> nel: Node 0 Normal: 21*4kB 9*8kB 26*16kB 3*32kB 6*64kB 5*128kB
>>> 0*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 1*4096kB = 6812kB
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: Node 0 HighMem: empty
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: Swap cache: add 71286821, delete
>>> 71287152, find 207780333/216904318, race 1387+10506
>>> May  6 22:31:29 pgblade02 kernel: Free swap  = 0kB
>>> May  6 22:31:30 pgblade02 kernel: Total swap = 8388600kB
>>> May  6 22:31:30 pgblade02 kernel: Free swap:            0kB
>>> May  6 22:31:30 pgblade02 kernel: 2293759 pages of RAM
>>> May  6 22:31:30 pgblade02 kernel: 249523 reserved pages
>>> May  6 22:31:30 pgblade02 kernel: 56111 pages shared
>>> May  6 22:31:30 pgblade02 kernel: 260 pages swap cached
>>> May  6 22:31:30 pgblade02 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process
>>> 29076 (postgres).
>>>
>>>
>>> We get folloowing errors in the postgres log:
>>>
>>> A couple of time:
>>> 2010-05-06 22:26:28 CEST [23001]: [2-1] WARNING:  worker took too
>>> long to start; cancelled
>>> Then:
>>> 2010-05-06 22:31:21 CEST [29059]: [27-1] LOG:  system logger process
>>> (PID 29076) was terminated by signal 9: Killed
>>> Finally:
>>> 2010-05-06 22:50:20 CEST [29059]: [28-1] LOG:  background writer
>>> process (PID 22999) was terminated by signal 9: Killed
>>> 2010-05-06 22:50:20 CEST [29059]: [29-1] LOG:  terminating any other
>>> active server processes
>>>
>>> Any help higly apprecaited,
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>
>> Hello Silvio,
>>
>> Is this machine dedicated to PostgreSQL?
>>
>> If so, I'd recommend adding these two parameters to your sysctl.conf
>>
>> vm.overcommit_memory = 2
>> vm.overcommit_ratio = 0
>>
>> So that OOMKiller is turned off.
>>
>> PostgreSQL should gracefully degrade if a malloc() fails because it
>> asks for too much memory.
>>
>> Hope that helps. =)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Lacey
>>
>>
>
> Thanks a lot,
> yes the server is dedicated to PostgreSQL.
>
> Could be a bug of PostgreSQL the fact that the system went Out of
> Memory?? Wath can be the cause of it?
>
> Regards,
> Silvio
>

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