I am getting this message quite often lately.
Centos 5.3, AMD dual core 5050e system x64
1 GIG ram, 4 GIG swap
I dont have that much running that the kernel should be cutting out my processes.
Any thoughts?
Jerry
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emTotal: 766264 kB MemFree: 583984 kB Buffers: 9572 kB Cached: 31004 kB SwapCached: 36280 kB Active: 20240 kB Inactive: 59780 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 766264 kB LowFree: 583984 kB SwapTotal: 4096564 kB SwapFree: 3932136 kB Dirty: 12 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 13184 kB Mapped: 16340 kB Slab: 22428 kB PageTables: 13980 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB CommitLimit: 4479696 kB Committed_AS: 442124 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 280856 kB VmallocChunk: 34359457495 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
096kB = 3424kB Node 0 Normal: empty Node 0 HighMem: empty 46 pagecache pages Swap cache: add 8934611, delete 8934611, find 7869746/7929974, race 11+11 Free swap = 0kB Total swap = 4096564kB Free swap: 0kB 196064 pages of RAM 13511 reserved pages 5948 pages shared 0 pages swap cached kthread invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=1, oomkilladj=0
Call Trace: [<ffffffff800c3a6a>] out_of_memory+0x8e/0x2f5 [<ffffffff8000f2eb>] __alloc_pages+0x245/0x2ce [<ffffffff8002303f>] alloc_page_interleave+0x3d/0x74 [<ffffffff8003c061>] __get_free_pages+0xe/0x71 [<ffffffff8001eb82>] copy_process+0xc6/0x15b8 [<ffffffff8009b8bc>] alloc_pid+0x1ee/0x28a [<ffffffff80030cdb>] do_fork+0x69/0x1c1 [<ffffffff8009d98c>] keventd_create_kthread+0x0/0xc4 [<ffffffff8005df3d>] kernel_thread+0x81/0xeb [<ffffffff8009d98c>] keventd_create_kthread+0x0/0xc4 [<ffffffff80032282>] kthread+0x0/0x132 [<ffffffff8005dfa7>] child_rip+0x0/0x11 [<ffffffff8009d9a9>] keventd_create_kthread+0x1d/0xc4 [<ffffffff8004d159>] run_workqueue+0x94/0xe4 [<ffffffff800499da>] worker_thread+0x0/0x122 [<ffffffff80049aca>] worker_thread+0xf0/0x122 [<ffffffff8008a4b3>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xe [<ffffffff80032380>] kthread+0xfe/0x132 [<ffffffff8005dfb1>] child_rip+0xa/0x11 [<ffffffff80032282>] kthread+0x0/0x132 [<ffffffff8005dfa7>] child_rip+0x0/0x11
Mem-info: Node 0 DMA per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: high 0, batch 1 used:0 cpu 0 cold: high 0, batch 1 used:0 cpu 1 hot: high 0, batch 1 used:0 cpu 1 cold: high 0, batch 1 used:0 Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: high 186, batch 31 used:146 cpu 0 cold: high 62, batch 15 used:47 cpu 1 hot: high 186, batch 31 used:18 cpu 1 cold: high 62, batch 15 used:55 Node 0 Normal per-cpu: empty Node 0 HighMem per-cpu: empty Free pages: 5652kB (0kB HighMem) Active:78394 inactive:78664 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:1413 slab:5343 mapped-file:6627 mapped-anon:157109 pagetables:5859 Node 0 DMA free:2160kB min:48kB low:60kB high:72kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:10724kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? yes lowmem_reserve[]: 0 739 739 739 Node 0 DMA32 free:3492kB min:3452kB low:4312kB high:5176kB active:313576kB inactive:314656kB present:757376kB pages_scanned:1226904 all_unreclaimable? yes lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Node 0 Normal free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Node 0 HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:128kB high:128kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Node 0 DMA: 4*4kB 4*8kB 2*16kB 5*32kB 4*64kB 1*128kB 2*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2160kB Node 0 DMA32: 19*4kB 11*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 8*64kB 2*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3492kB Node 0 Normal: empty Node 0 HighMem: empty 45 pagecache pages Swap cache: add 8934620, delete 8934620, find 7869746/7929974, race 11+11 Free swap = 0kB Total swap = 4096564kB Free swap: 0kB 196064 pages of RAM 13511 reserved pages 4950 pages shared 0 pages swap cached