Thread (49 messages) 49 messages, 5 authors, 2016-09-06

Re: OOM killer changes

From: Michal Hocko <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-01 20:26:19

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

On Mon 01-08-16 13:16:49, Ralf-Peter Rohbeck wrote:

On 08/01/16 13:09, Michal Hocko wrote:
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On Mon 01-08-16 12:52:40, Ralf-Peter Rohbeck wrote:
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root@fs:~# lsscsi
[0:2:0:0]    disk    LSI      MR9271-8iCC      3.29  /dev/sda
[0:2:1:0]    disk    LSI      MR9271-8iCC      3.29  /dev/sdb
[9:0:0:0]    disk    TOSHIBA  External USB 3.0 5438  /dev/sdf
[10:0:0:0]   disk    Seagate  Backup+ Desk     050B  /dev/sdc
[11:0:0:0]   disk    Seagate  Expansion Desk   9400  /dev/sdd
[12:0:0:0]   disk    Seagate  Backup+ Desk     050B /dev/sde
[13:0:0:0]   disk    Seagate  Expansion Desk   9400 /dev/sdg
[14:0:0:0]   disk    TOSHIBA  External USB 3.0 5438 /dev/sdl
[15:0:0:0]   disk    Seagate  Expansion Desk   9400 /dev/sdh
[16:0:0:0]   disk    Seagate  Expansion Desk   9400 /dev/sdi
[17:0:0:0]   disk    TOSHIBA  External USB 3.0 5438 /dev/sdm
[18:0:0:0]   disk    Seagate  Expansion Desk   9400 /dev/sdj
[19:0:0:0]   disk    Seagate  Expansion Desk   9400  /dev/sdk

sda is a 6x 1TB RAID5 and sdb is a single 480GB SSD, both on a MegaRAID
controller.

The rest are 4TB USB drives that I'm experimenting with.
Which devices did you write when hitting the OOM killer?
sdc, sdd and sde each at max speed, with a little bit of garden variety IO
on sda and sdb.
So do I get it right that the majority of the IO is to those slower USB
disks?  If yes then does lowering the dirty_bytes to something smaller
help?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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