[Oisf-users] suricata1.1 + pfring5.1, kernel run out of memory(OOM) on debian squeeze

Delta Yeh delta.yeh at gmail.com
Sat Dec 10 16:49:23 UTC 2011


Does pfring really need so much memory under such "low" stress?
pfring consume 400MB, and suricata 40MB?

2011/12/11 Dave Remien <dave.remien at gmail.com>:
> Switch to a 64 bit kernel, and all the low-mem problems go away (there's no
> low-mem! Yay!! Assuming, of course, that you can.). Slabtop will tell you
> about low-mem usage, if you haven't looked at it.
>
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Delta Yeh <delta.yeh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>    I have 32 bit debian squeeze box with 4G mem, runing suricata+pfring,
>> there  is out of memory in the past two days.
>>
>> Kernel is 2.6.39, suricata is 1.1, pfring is 5.1 which support pfring
>> bpf filter.
>> According to the dmesg, the memory of suricata is low(about 40MB) ,
>> but the kernel low memory is almost zero.
>> The traffic is not high at all, only 75 http req/s . It seems kernel
>> run out of memory for some reason.
>>
>>  To reproduce it, I run a http stress test with load runner,
>>  Soon , the available kernel low mem  became 220M, and it decreased
>> continually.
>> Then I kill suricata( 4XMB memory according to ps output) , the
>> available low mem is back to 6XXM, which I think is
>> reasonable.
>>
>>
>> dmesg  when  OOM is :
>>
>>
>> [108769.088032] php5-cli invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=1,
>> oom_adj=0, oom_score_adj=0
>> [108769.088093] php5-cli cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
>> [108769.088123] Pid: 32213, comm: php5-cli Not tainted 2.6.39.4 #1
>> [108769.088157] Call Trace:
>> [108769.088187]  [<c1070cc6>] dump_header+0x69/0x17d
>> [108769.088220]  [<c11e14d6>] ? ___ratelimit+0xca/0xe0
>> [108769.088251]  [<c1070f94>] oom_kill_process+0x2e/0x201
>> [108769.088284]  [<c1071432>] out_of_memory+0x1ee/0x2b1
>> [108769.088315]  [<c10743ce>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x439/0x581
>> [108769.088351]  [<c102e103>] copy_process+0xe1/0xd9d
>> [108769.088382]  [<c11a2687>] ? security_file_alloc+0xf/0x11
>> [108769.088416]  [<c10a0177>] ? get_empty_filp+0x9b/0x13f
>> [108769.088448]  [<c102efab>] do_fork+0xd7/0x1eb
>> [108769.088479]  [<c1008120>] sys_clone+0x1f/0x24
>> [108769.088509]  [<c134f571>] ptregs_clone+0x15/0x24
>> [108769.088540]  [<c134f49c>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x2c
>> [108769.088571] Mem-Info:
>> [108769.088595] Node 0 DMA per-cpu:
>> [108769.088623] CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
>> [108769.088654] CPU    1: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
>> [108769.088684] Node 0 Normal per-cpu:
>> [108769.088713] CPU    0: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:   0
>> [108769.088744] CPU    1: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:   0
>> [108769.088774] Node 0 HighMem per-cpu:
>> [108769.088802] CPU    0: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:   0
>> [108769.088833] CPU    1: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:   0
>> [108769.088866] active_anon:91593 inactive_anon:4805 isolated_anon:0
>> [108769.088867]  active_file:24583 inactive_file:8171 isolated_file:0
>> [108769.088868]  unevictable:444 dirty:33 writeback:0 unstable:0
>> [108769.088869]  free:599897 slab_reclaimable:47561
>> slab_unreclaimable:159717
>> [108769.088870]  mapped:22437 shmem:17145 pagetables:660 bounce:0
>> [108769.089032] Node 0 DMA free:3536kB min:64kB low:80kB high:96kB
>> active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:72kB inactive_file:0kB
>> unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:15804kB
>> mlocked:0kB dirty:8kB writeback:0kB mapped:0kB shmem:0kB
>> slab_reclaimable:2876kB slab_unreclaimable:9168kB kernel_stack:256kB
>> pagetables:0kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB
>> pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? yes
>> [108769.089234] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 867 4007 4007
>> [108769.089269] Node 0 Normal free:6696kB min:3732kB low:4664kB
>> high:5596kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:48kB
>> inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB
>> isolated(file):0kB present:887976kB mlocked:0kB dirty:12kB
>> writeback:0kB mapped:0kB shmem:0kB slab_reclaimable:187368kB
>> slab_unreclaimable:629700kB kernel_stack:864kB pagetables:0kB
>> unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:48
>> all_unreclaimable? yes
>> [108769.089474] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 25124 25124
>> [108769.089508] Node 0 HighMem free:2389356kB min:512kB low:3892kB
>> high:7272kB active_anon:366372kB inactive_anon:19220kB
>> active_file:98212kB inactive_file:32700kB unevictable:1776kB
>> isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:3215956kB mlocked:1776kB
>> dirty:112kB writeback:0kB mapped:89748kB shmem:68580kB
>> slab_reclaimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:0kB kernel_stack:0kB
>> pagetables:2640kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB
>> pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
>> [108769.089719] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
>> [108769.089752] Node 0 DMA: 76*4kB 16*8kB 14*16kB 8*32kB 9*64kB
>> 4*128kB 2*256kB 2*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3536kB
>> [108769.089829] Node 0 Normal: 1215*4kB 214*8kB 11*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB
>> 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 6748kB
>> [108769.089907] Node 0 HighMem: 487*4kB 14588*8kB 7079*16kB 2792*32kB
>> 1022*64kB 234*128kB 62*256kB 30*512kB 16*1024kB 14*2048kB 463*4096kB =
>> 2389356kB
>> [108769.089990] 50284 total pagecache pages
>> [108769.090018] 0 pages in swap cache
>> [108769.090045] Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0
>> [108769.090077] Free swap  = 0kB
>> [108769.090102] Total swap = 0kB
>> [108769.103348] 1245168 pages RAM
>> [108769.103376] 1017346 pages HighMem
>> [108769.103403] 232402 pages reserved
>> [108769.103429] 65775 pages shared
>> [108769.103455] 386797 pages non-shared
>> [108769.103484] [ pid ]   uid  tgid total_vm      rss cpu oom_adj
>> oom_score_adj name
>> [108769.103545] [ 1357]     0  1357     1348      228   1       0
>>      0 sshd
>> [108769.103600] [ 1477]     0  1477      394       57   1       0
>>      0 readproctitle
>> [108769.103657] [ 1481]     0  1481      437       96   1       0
>>      0 svscan
>> [108769.103713] [ 1483]     0  1483      397       57   0       0
>>      0 supervise
>> [108769.103770] [ 1484]     0  1484      432      100   1       0
>>      0 multilog
>> [108769.103826] [ 1634]     0  1634      445      444   1     -17
>>  -1000 watchdog
>> [108769.103883] [ 1910]   107  1910    37680     1568   1       0
>>      0 postgres
>> [108769.103939] [ 1913]   107  1913    37718    16333   1       0
>>      0 postgres
>> [108769.104016] [ 1914]   107  1914    37718      296   1       0
>>      0 postgres
>> [108769.104081] [ 1915]   107  1915    37756      351   1       0
>>      0 postgres
>> [108769.104152] [ 1916]   107  1916     3704      275   1       0
>>      0 postgres
>> [108769.104212] [ 2111]     0  2111     9419      409   0       0
>>      0 rsyslogd
>> [108769.104450] [ 2128]     0  2128      691      284   1       0
>>      0 redis-server
>> [108769.104508] [ 2130]     0  2130      691      281   1       0
>>      0 redis-server
>> [108769.104565] [ 2137]     0  2137    17079    10799   1       0
>>      0 php5-cli
>> [108769.104622] [ 2140]     0  2140    17078    10734   0       0
>>      0 php5-cli
>> [108769.104678] [ 2160]   107  2160    37940     1018   0       0
>>      0 postgres
>> [108769.104734] [ 2161]   107  2161    37940     1024   0       0
>>      0 postgres
>> [108769.104790] [ 2176]     0  2176    18371     2347   0       0
>>      0 python
>> [108769.104846] [ 2177]   107  2177    37924     7389   0       0
>>      0 postgres
>> [108769.104902] [ 2179]   107  2179    37951    13986   0       0
>>      0 postgres
>> [108769.104958] [ 2251]     0  2251      576      159   0       0
>>      0 getty
>> [108769.105014] [ 2252]     0  2252      681      294   1       0
>>      0 rc.initial
>> [108769.105071] [ 1214]     0  1214    20093    13917   1       0
>>      0 php5-cli
>> [108769.105127] [ 1289]     0  1289    43124    25098   1       0
>>      0 suricata
>> [108769.105296] [ 1316]   107  1316    37924      990   1       0
>>      0 postgres
>> [108769.105519] [ 6938]     0  6938      397       59   1       0
>>      0 supervise
>> [108769.106267] [ 6942]     0  6942      435      120   0       0
>>      0 uscheduled
>> [108769.106324] [29249]     0 29249     2074      664   0       0
>>      0 sshd
>> [108769.106379] [29292]     0 29292     1208      356   1       0
>>      0 sftp-server
>> [108769.106436] [29339]     0 29339     2034      666   1       0
>>      0 sshd
>> [108769.106492] [29342]     0 29342      698      371   0       0
>>      0 sh
>> [108769.106602] [31015]     0 31015     1242      313   1       0
>>      0 sftp-server
>> [108769.106660] [32210]     0 32210      663      248   1       0
>>      0 monitor
>> [108769.106715] [32211]     0 32211      663      249   0       0
>>      0 safecheck
>> [108769.106772] [32212]     0 32212    13763     9395   0       0
>>      0 php5-cli
>> [108769.106828] [32213]     0 32213    13764     9406   0       0
>>      0 php5-cli
>> [108769.106883] Out of memory (oom_kill_allocating_task): Kill process
>> 32213 (php5-cli) score 0 or sacrifice child
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