Thread (161 messages) 161 messages, 7 authors, 2013-07-25

Re: [PATCH for 3.2.34] memcg: do not trigger OOM from add_to_page_cache_locked

From: Michal Hocko <hidden>
Date: 2012-12-28 16:35:25
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On Mon 24-12-12 14:38:50, azurIt wrote:
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OK, good to hear and fingers crossed. I will try to get back to the
original problem and a better solution sometimes early next year when
all the things settle a bit.

Btw, i noticed one more thing when problem is happening (=when any
cgroup is stucked), i fogot to mention it before, sorry :( . It's
related to HDDs, something is slowing them down in a strange way. All
services are working normally and i really cannot notice any slowness,
the only thing which i noticed is affeceted is our backup software (
www.Bacula.org ). When problem occurs at night, so it's happening when
backup is running, backup is extremely slow and usually don't finish
until i kill processes inside affected cgroup (=until i resolve the
problem). Backup software is NOT doing big HDD bandwidth BUT it's
doing quite huge number of disk operations (it needs to stat every
file and directory). I believe that only speed of disk operations are
affected and are very slow.
I would bet that this is caused by the blocked proceses in memcg oom
handler which hold i_mutex and the backup process wants to access the
same inode with an operation which requires the lock.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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