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PostPosted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:27 am    Post subject: firefox beaten to death by oom-killer Reply with quote

Hi. I have had gentoo running at my box at work now for a month or so, and life has been good. I am running KDE: 3.4.3 on 2.6.15-gentoo-r1. I have 8 virtual desktops on KDE, and use them all for a variety of different tasks. I generally have an instance of Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 running in them all, with a few tabs maybe.

Everythign was going grand, until i came in to work today to find all my FireFox instances had gone! Everything else appears fine. After looking through my /var/log/messages i found this:

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Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Mem-info:
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj DMA per-cpu:
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj cpu 0 hot: low 0, high 0, batch 1 used:0
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 0, batch 1 used:0
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj DMA32 per-cpu: empty
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Normal per-cpu:
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj cpu 0 hot: low 0, high 186, batch 31 used:158
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 62, batch 15 used:14
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj HighMem per-cpu: empty
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Free pages:        4804kB (0kB HighMem)
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Active:56395 inactive:56109 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstabl
e:0 free:1201 slab:3925 mapped:111579 pagetables:723
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj DMA free:2032kB min:88kB low:108kB high:132kB active:54
12kB inactive:5192kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:18009 all_unreclaimable? yes
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 486 486
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj DMA32 free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inac
tive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 486 486
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Normal free:2772kB min:2776kB low:3468kB high:4164kB ac
tive:220168kB inactive:219244kB present:498208kB pages_scanned:589847 all_unrecl
aimable? yes
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:128kB high:128kB active:
0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj DMA: 0*4kB 0*8kB 1*16kB 3*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 1
*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2032kB
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj DMA32: empty
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Normal: 55*4kB 35*8kB 10*16kB 2*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*2
56kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2772kB
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj HighMem: empty
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Swap cache: add 308372, delete 308372, find 81803/10062
6, race 0+0
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Free swap  = 0kB
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Total swap = 506036kB
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Free swap:            0kB
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj 128648 pages of RAM
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj 0 pages of HIGHMEM
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj 2197 reserved pages
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj 14482 pages shared
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj 0 pages swap cached
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj 0 pages dirty
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj 0 pages writeback
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj 111579 pages mapped
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj 3925 pages slab
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj 723 pages pagetables
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Out of Memory: Killed process 29080 (firefox-bin).
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Out of Memory: Killed process 15864 (firefox-bin).
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Out of Memory: Killed process 15865 (firefox-bin).
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Out of Memory: Killed process 15866 (firefox-bin).Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Mem-info:
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj DMA per-cpu:
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj cpu 0 hot: low 0, high 0, batch 1 used:0
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 0, batch 1 used:0
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj DMA32 per-cpu: empty
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Normal per-cpu:
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj cpu 0 hot: low 0, high 186, batch 31 used:158
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 62, batch 15 used:14
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj HighMem per-cpu: empty
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Free pages:        4804kB (0kB HighMem)
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Active:56395 inactive:56109 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:1201 slab:3925 mapped:111580 pagetables:723
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj DMA free:2032kB min:88kB low:108kB high:132kB active:5412kB inactive:5192kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:18009 all_unreclaimable? yes
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 486 486
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj DMA32 free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 486 486
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Normal free:2772kB min:2776kB low:3468kB high:4164kB active:220168kB inactive:219244kB present:498208kB pages_scanned:589847 all_unreclaimable? yes
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:128kB high:128kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj DMA: 0*4kB 0*8kB 1*16kB 3*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2032kB
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj DMA32: empty
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Normal: 55*4kB 35*8kB 10*16kB 2*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2772kB
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj HighMem: empty
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Swap cache: add 308372, delete 308372, find 81803/100626, race 0+0
Mar  2 06:15:27 lsayregj Out of Memory: Killed process 15868 (firefox-bin).


This is repeated a few times in the log. It appears that ive run out of swap space? and firefoz has been killed as a result? Am i right in thinking this?

How can i have run out of swap space when i have 512Mb Memory and my swap is:
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/dev/sda2               6          68      506047+  82  Linux swap


I have conky running and i keep an eye on things and the swap was never above half full, as i woulf have notcied. I have run top now and there are no processes running using any significant ammount of memory.

Whats happened?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 1:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Free swap  = 0kB

Speaks for itself.
Run
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free -m

to determine your memory load.

If you're running separate instances of firefox this will consume more memory than running one with multiple tabs.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 1:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I assumed that the swap and memory run out, but i cant see how nearly a Gb of it could be used by 10 or so firefox borwsers!?1?
Is this normal?

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lsayregj ~ # free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           493        343        150          0         38         89
-/+ buffers/cache:        215        278
Swap:          494        154        339


I had 5 fire fox instances running when i run that command.

So... are you saying i need to increase my swap size or get more memory to run more than 10 fire fox instances?
Sounds a bit weird to me.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not necessarily, although it is my experience there are very few programs that eat more memory than fireFox.
It'll gladly take over 200MB when I've been browsing for a few hours, using 10+ tabs, on Windows.. no reason it should be any different on Linux.

That ouput shows you are using only 215MB of main memory at that point, so it should certainly not cause FF to get hit by OOM.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thats a bit disapointing then, if firefox can so easily drain my system of resources with only 10 instances of itself and a few tabs.

Is there any kind of memory management application i could use that would warn me when somthing like this is going to happen again, as lossing all the firefox windows is a right pain at work. Perhaps i should use another browser instead of fire fox, but i really like firefox :( Or i should double the size of the swap space, but thsi will slow things down then won it?

bah :?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I stick to Opera ... you could try it.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My firefox (1.0.7) has been running for weeks without restart here, generally one instance with 5 - 15 tabs. At the moment it is using 63 MB (six tabs). It would not add up to a GB with another ten similar sessions running, that is.

You most likely have a memory leak, in firefox itself, one of its dependencies or an added extension. Verify by checking if the memory usage of a firefox session increases over time without user interaction.

If yes, I would backup my ~/.mozilla directory, then wipe it and uninstall extensions. If the problem persists, I would ensure the sanity of my toolchain, and then 'emerge -e firefox'.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like firefox, and dont want to swap to another browser, so i will keep an eye on memory usage. My feeling is that there is a memory leak with one of the extentions. But, i only have 2 extentions: Colour Tabs and Google Toolbar for Fire Fox. Still, ill monitor it tonight and see what its like tomorrow.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

post results..
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I did some check throught the night and memory usage went up, but i do have other things running on the box. How can i monitor just the FIreFox pids? top -p x is the only way i know, and im not sure if thats what you want?

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I personally use xrestop (emerge xrestop). It's a 'top' like program for your X processes only.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know this is not a fix, but have you considered using a the extension SessionSaver?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have come back to my gentoo box after a weekend away, and the memory usage has increased significantly. Nothing has been going on with the machine during this time, so somthing certainly a miss.

I have emerged xrestop and also used top, but cant figure out how to get the output written to file. As they update themselfs, i guess this cant be done the usual way of piping. Anyone know how i can get a memory usage readng from firefox into a file? Once i know this ill set a cronjob going with it every 15 mins over night and see what happens.

SessionSaver looks good, ill look into it more later.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK, this isnt funny now :/ Look at my swap / mem usage....

Code:

                   total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           493        482         11          0          4         64
-/+ buffers/cache:        413         80
Swap:          494        493          0


This has grown over the last week, and is not the result of having many additional (if any) firefox borwsers open. I currently (when the above info was taken) have 6 firefox instances running, with a total of 17 tabs spread amoungt them. This is not unreasonable surely?

here is a dump i took of xrestop.

Code:

[(B^[)0^[[?1049h^[[1;34r^[[m^O^[[4l^[[?7h^[[H^[[2Jxrestop - Display: localhost:0^[[2;11HMonitoring 30 clients. XErrors: 0^[[3;11HPixmaps:   71481K total, Other:     257K total, All:   71738K total^M

^[[0;1;7m^Ores-base Wins  GCs Fnts Pxms Misc   Pxm mem  Other   Total   PID Identifier    ^M
^[[m^O1200000  1570   34    1 1259  296    61845K     45K  61891K   ?   AtlasChoice: Discount Hotels, Ca^[[7;1H1600000    71  122    3  107  152     5270K     11K   5281K   ?   KDE Desktop^M
1000000   145  122    1  231  474     1546K     18K   1565K   ?   kwin^M
3600000  1367  126    3 1063  551^[[40G852K     50K    903K   ?   file:///var/www/localhost/htdocs^[[10;1H1a00000   175  125    3  554  475^[[40G601K     21K    622K   ?   kicker^M
3800000    51  124    3   80   72^[[40G234K^[[50G8K    243K   ?   root@uws-radiator1: /usr/local/e^[[12;1H2400000    51  124    3   77   71^[[40G196K^[[50G8K    205K   ?   lsayregj:/var/www/localhost/htdo^[[13;1H2e00000    49  124    3   74   71^[[40G190K^[[50G8K    199K   ?   lsayregj:~ - Shell - Konsole^M
3a00000    53   99    3   80   63^[[40G149K^[[50G8K    157K   ?   [New Document] [modified] - KEdi^[[15;1H2600000    48  124    3  206  175^[[40G135K     11K    146K   ?   lsayregj:~ - Shell - Konsole^M
2a00000    48  124    3  132  110^[[40G101K^[[50G9K    111K   ?   lsayregj:/ - Shell - Konsole^M
2800000    49  118    3   62   50^[[41G64K^[[50G8K     72K   ?   lsayregj:/var/www/localhost/htdo^[[18;1H0600000    19  107    1    8   42^[[41G65K^[[50G4K     70K 10196 kded^M
3200000    35  115    3   50   48^[[41G46K^[[50G7K     54K   ?   lsayregj:~ - Shell - Konsole^M
1800000    35  115    3   50   46^[[41G46K^[[50G7K     54K   ?   lsayregj:/var/www/localhost/htdo^[[21;1H2200000    35  114    3   50   40^[[41G46K^[[50G7K     54K   ?   lsayregj:~ - Shell - Konsole^M
1c00000    13   50    3   40   36^[[41G35K^[[50G5K     40K   ?   klipper^M
1e00000    21    7    1   11    9^[[41G19K^[[50G1K     21K   ?   KDE Wallet Manager^M
2000000     6    7    1   12    9^[[41G17K^[[50G1K     19K   ?   KOrganizer Alarm Daemon^M
3400000    34    4    1   16    9^[[41G14K^[[50G2K     16K 30149 kio_uiserver^M
2c00000    38   13    3    0   12^[[26;42H0B^[[50G4K^[[58G4K   ?   <unknown>^M
0e00000     3    1    1    0    4^[[27;42H0B^[[50G1K^[[58G1K 10209 kaccess^M
1400000     2    1    1    0    4^[[28;42H0B^[[50G1K^[[58G1K 10215 knotify^M
0c00000     2    1    1    0    4^[[29;42H0B^[[50G1K^[[58G1K 10212 ksmserver^M
3000000     0    2    0    0   17^[[30;42H0B    456B    456B   ?   <unknown>^M


I feel like its abotu to blow! What can i do to resolve this? Is removinf firefox 1.0.7 and risking 1.5 a good idea?
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

GarethAyres wrote:
OK, this isnt funny now :/ Look at my swap / mem usage....

Code:

                   total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           493        482         11          0          4         64
-/+ buffers/cache:        413         80
Swap:          494        493          0


This has grown over the last week, and is not the result of having many additional (if any) firefox borwsers open. I currently (when the above info was taken) have 6 firefox instances running, with a total of 17 tabs spread amoungt them. This is not unreasonable surely?

here is a dump i took of xrestop.

Code:

[(B^[)0^[[?1049h^[[1;34r^[[m^O^[[4l^[[?7h^[[H^[[2Jxrestop - Display: localhost:0^[[2;11HMonitoring 30 clients. XErrors: 0^[[3;11HPixmaps:   71481K total, Other:     257K total, All:   71738K total^M

^[[0;1;7m^Ores-base Wins  GCs Fnts Pxms Misc   Pxm mem  Other   Total   PID Identifier    ^M
^[[m^O1200000  1570   34    1 1259  296    61845K     45K  61891K   ?   AtlasChoice: Discount Hotels, Ca^[[7;1H1600000    71  122    3  107  152     5270K     11K   5281K   ?   KDE Desktop^M
1000000   145  122    1  231  474     1546K     18K   1565K   ?   kwin^M
3600000  1367  126    3 1063  551^[[40G852K     50K    903K   ?   file:///var/www/localhost/htdocs^[[10;1H1a00000   175  125    3  554  475^[[40G601K     21K    622K   ?   kicker^M
3800000    51  124    3   80   72^[[40G234K^[[50G8K    243K   ?   root@uws-radiator1: /usr/local/e^[[12;1H2400000    51  124    3   77   71^[[40G196K^[[50G8K    205K   ?   lsayregj:/var/www/localhost/htdo^[[13;1H2e00000    49  124    3   74   71^[[40G190K^[[50G8K    199K   ?   lsayregj:~ - Shell - Konsole^M
3a00000    53   99    3   80   63^[[40G149K^[[50G8K    157K   ?   [New Document] [modified] - KEdi^[[15;1H2600000    48  124    3  206  175^[[40G135K     11K    146K   ?   lsayregj:~ - Shell - Konsole^M
2a00000    48  124    3  132  110^[[40G101K^[[50G9K    111K   ?   lsayregj:/ - Shell - Konsole^M
2800000    49  118    3   62   50^[[41G64K^[[50G8K     72K   ?   lsayregj:/var/www/localhost/htdo^[[18;1H0600000    19  107    1    8   42^[[41G65K^[[50G4K     70K 10196 kded^M
3200000    35  115    3   50   48^[[41G46K^[[50G7K     54K   ?   lsayregj:~ - Shell - Konsole^M
1800000    35  115    3   50   46^[[41G46K^[[50G7K     54K   ?   lsayregj:/var/www/localhost/htdo^[[21;1H2200000    35  114    3   50   40^[[41G46K^[[50G7K     54K   ?   lsayregj:~ - Shell - Konsole^M
1c00000    13   50    3   40   36^[[41G35K^[[50G5K     40K   ?   klipper^M
1e00000    21    7    1   11    9^[[41G19K^[[50G1K     21K   ?   KDE Wallet Manager^M
2000000     6    7    1   12    9^[[41G17K^[[50G1K     19K   ?   KOrganizer Alarm Daemon^M
3400000    34    4    1   16    9^[[41G14K^[[50G2K     16K 30149 kio_uiserver^M
2c00000    38   13    3    0   12^[[26;42H0B^[[50G4K^[[58G4K   ?   <unknown>^M
0e00000     3    1    1    0    4^[[27;42H0B^[[50G1K^[[58G1K 10209 kaccess^M
1400000     2    1    1    0    4^[[28;42H0B^[[50G1K^[[58G1K 10215 knotify^M
0c00000     2    1    1    0    4^[[29;42H0B^[[50G1K^[[58G1K 10212 ksmserver^M
3000000     0    2    0    0   17^[[30;42H0B    456B    456B   ?   <unknown>^M


I feel like its abotu to blow! What can i do to resolve this? Is removinf firefox 1.0.7 and risking 1.5 a good idea?

I've gone crosseyed trying to make sense out of your dump. Would you mind explaining which processes use the most memory, and how much they use?
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry,

Fire Fox > 61891K

FireFox is currently using 46.5% of mem according to top:

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
31415 root 16 0 468m 229m 12m S 0.0 46.5 254:39.67 firefox-bin

Im guessing thats there is amemory leak, and that top wont spot that.

Any advice on how i can better work out memory or swap allocation would be great.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 9:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

GarethAyres wrote:
I like firefox, and dont want to swap to another browser, so i will keep an eye on memory usage. My feeling is that there is a memory leak with one of the extentions. But, i only have 2 extentions: Colour Tabs and Google Toolbar for Fire Fox. Still, ill monitor it tonight and see what its like tomorrow.

Gareth.

Have you tried living without the extensions - for a little while, anyway?
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 12:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Firefox has known memory leak issues and there's not much anyone can do about it. Your best option is to just restart it once a day.
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