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out of memory after 4 days...

Posted: 5. Sep 2008, 08:07
by zas
Hi,
i have 3 vms (linux) running on an ubuntu gutsy host. After 3 - 6 days one vm crashed. Then i restart all (host and guests), the same error after some days....
On the host i got this log:

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Sep  5 01:03:01 zassrv06 -- MARK --
Sep  5 01:23:23 zassrv06 -- MARK --
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686852] VBoxHeadless invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x200d2, order=0, oomkilladj=0
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686859] 
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686860] Call Trace:
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686899]  [out_of_memory+694/816] out_of_memory+0x2b6/0x330
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686905]  [__alloc_pages+748/832] __alloc_pages+0x2ec/0x340
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686914]  [read_swap_cache_async+229/288] read_swap_cache_async+0xe5/0x120
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686919]  [swapin_readahead+98/240] swapin_readahead+0x62/0xf0
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686925]  [__handle_mm_fault+2220/2912] __handle_mm_fault+0x8ac/0xb60
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686934]  [do_page_fault+508/2160] do_page_fault+0x1fc/0x870
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686941]  [thread_return+0/1772] thread_return+0x0/0x6ec
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686950]  [error_exit+0/132] error_exit+0x0/0x84
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686957] 
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686959] Mem-info:
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686961] Node 0 DMA per-cpu:
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686963] CPU    0: Hot: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0   Cold: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686966] CPU    1: Hot: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0   Cold: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686968] Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu:
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686970] CPU    0: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:   4   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  59
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686973] CPU    1: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  17   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  53
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686976] Active:58 inactive:225962 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686978]  free:2127 slab:5166 mapped:10 pagetables:991 bounce:0
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686979] Node 0 DMA free:3876kB min:40kB low:48kB high:60kB active:0kB inactive:7380kB present:10804kB pages_scanned:23076 all_unreclaimable? yes
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686984] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 960 960
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686986] Node 0 DMA32 free:4632kB min:3944kB low:4928kB high:5916kB active:232kB inactive:896468kB present:983740kB pages_scanned:1946972 all_unreclaimable? yes
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686991] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.686993] Node 0 DMA: 3*4kB 1*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3876kB
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.687001] Node 0 DMA32: 174*4kB 22*8kB 3*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 4632kB
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.687009] Swap cache: add 898914, delete 672678, find 257875/372731, race 0+223
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.687011] Free swap  = 1887568kB
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.687013] Total swap = 2981880kB
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.687014] Free swap:       1887568kB
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.691705] 253439 pages of RAM
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.691707] 14769 reserved pages
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.691708] 50 pages shared
Sep  5 01:34:59 zassrv06 kernel: [648203.691710] 226236 pages swap cached
Sep  5 02:03:46 zassrv06 -- MARK --
Sep  5 02:23:46 zassrv06 -- MARK --
Is this an error in the host kernel or an error in the vm kernel reaching the host?
BTW: I can reproduce thist error on two identical hosts (hardware).

Thanks and Regards,
zas

Posted: 5. Sep 2008, 13:21
by Sasquatch
Is the Guest running out of RAM? Or the Host?