Activity log for bug #159356

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2007-11-01 20:24:39 Ohad Lutzky bug added bug
2007-12-23 06:04:10 lcampagn linux-meta: status New Confirmed
2009-06-02 19:26:43 Andy Whitcroft affects linux-meta (Ubuntu) linux (Ubuntu)
2009-08-17 00:58:50 Rocko bug watch added http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13205
2010-11-15 00:58:54 Nuno Sucena Almeida bug added subscriber Nuno Sucena Almeida
2011-04-22 19:46:08 Uhurusurfa bug added subscriber Uhurusurfa
2011-05-26 08:59:37 adam jvok bug added subscriber adam jvok
2011-06-08 15:14:15 Simon Wenner bug added subscriber Simon Wenner
2012-04-15 02:55:57 penalvch linux (Ubuntu): status Confirmed Incomplete
2012-04-15 02:56:18 penalvch tags dapper needs-upstream-testing
2012-04-15 02:56:40 penalvch description I run a batch matlab job server here at my lab, running Dapper 6.06 (for the LTS). One of the users has submitted a very memory-consuming job, which successfully crashes the server. Upon closer inspection, the crash happens like this: 1. I run matlab with the given file (as an ordinary, unpriveleged user) 2. RAM usage quickly fills up 3. Once the RAM meter hits 100%, the system freezes: All SSH connections freeze up, and while switching VTs directly on the machine works, no new processes run - so one can't log in, or do anything if he is logged in. (Sometimes typing doesn't work at all) Note that the swap - while 7 gigs of it are available - is never used. (The machine has 7 gigs of RAM as well) I've tried the same on my Gutsy 32-bit box, and there was no system freezeup - matlab simply notified that the system was out of memory. However, it did this once memory was 100% in use - and still, swap didn't get used at all! (Though it is mounted correctly and shows up in "top" and "free"). So first thing's first - I'd like to eliminate the crash issue. I suppose I could switch the server to 32-bit, but I think that would be a performance loss, considering that it does a lot of heavy computation. There is no reason, however, that this should happen on a 64-bit machine anyway. Why does it? The second concerning thing is swap - how come it doesn't get used? I run a batch matlab job server here at my lab, running Dapper 6.06 (for the LTS). One of the users has submitted a very memory-consuming job, which successfully crashes the server. Upon closer inspection, the crash happens like this: 1. I run matlab with the given file (as an ordinary, unpriveleged user) 2. RAM usage quickly fills up 3. Once the RAM meter hits 100%, the system freezes: All SSH connections freeze up, and while switching VTs directly on the machine works, no new processes run - so one can't log in, or do anything if he is logged in. (Sometimes typing doesn't work at all) Note that the swap - while 7 gigs of it are available - is never used. (The machine has 7 gigs of RAM as well) I've tried the same on my Gutsy 32-bit box, and there was no system freezeup - matlab simply notified that the system was out of memory. However, it did this once memory was 100% in use - and still, swap didn't get used at all! (Though it is mounted correctly and shows up in "top" and "free"). So first thing's first - I'd like to eliminate the crash issue. I suppose I could switch the server to 32-bit, but I think that would be a performance loss, considering that it does a lot of heavy computation. There is no reason, however, that this should happen on a 64-bit machine anyway. Why does it? WORKAROUND: Enabling DMA in the BIOS
2012-06-29 13:22:32 pityka bug added subscriber pityka
2012-07-12 10:29:53 Lesmana Zimmer bug added subscriber Lesmana Zimmer
2012-07-31 01:45:00 Helio Tadao Goto bug added subscriber Helio Tadao Goto
2012-07-31 13:48:55 NickNackGus linux (Ubuntu): status Incomplete Confirmed
2012-07-31 14:00:12 NickNackGus attachment added typical RAM and swap usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/159356/+attachment/3243704/+files/Screenshot.png
2012-07-31 14:40:51 penalvch linux (Ubuntu): status Confirmed Incomplete
2012-07-31 14:40:58 penalvch attachment removed typical RAM and swap usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/159356/+attachment/3243704/+files/Screenshot.png
2012-07-31 14:59:11 Uhurusurfa removed subscriber Uhurusurfa
2012-09-21 04:53:03 Mark Russell bug added subscriber Mark Russell
2013-01-14 17:15:02 jarondl bug added subscriber jarondl
2013-04-29 14:58:43 Moses Gingerich bug added subscriber Moses Gingerich
2014-01-18 14:26:46 Mariusz Szczepańczyk bug added subscriber Mariusz Szczepańczyk
2014-10-16 21:14:15 Mike Udall removed subscriber Mike Udall
2015-02-12 10:18:04 Wim bug added subscriber Wim
2015-10-10 12:14:29 yas bug added subscriber yas
2015-10-10 18:30:34 penalvch linux (Ubuntu): importance Undecided Low
2015-10-10 19:33:53 lcampagn removed subscriber lcampagn
2015-10-16 01:13:25 penalvch bug added subscriber h
2016-03-09 21:19:18 penalvch bug added subscriber Cossio
2016-04-24 23:30:24 penalvch bug added subscriber marco
2016-05-18 15:29:04 Ivan bug added subscriber Ivan
2016-06-17 14:59:21 pmelix bug added subscriber pmelix
2016-08-14 07:54:25 Mikko Rytkönen bug added subscriber Mikko Rytkönen
2017-04-17 18:50:16 Mark Russell removed subscriber Mark Russell
2017-09-27 00:20:48 insp bug added subscriber insp
2017-10-20 17:03:55 Jan Niklas Hasse bug added subscriber Jan Niklas Hasse
2017-12-03 22:29:21 Danil Antonov bug added subscriber Danil Antonov
2018-01-16 04:56:45 mostafa741 information type Public Public Security
2018-01-16 04:56:47 mostafa741 information type Public Security Private Security
2018-01-16 04:56:58 mostafa741 information type Private Security Public
2018-01-16 21:22:05 Mihai b linux (Ubuntu): status Incomplete Confirmed
2018-01-19 12:58:20 mikkk bug added subscriber mikkk
2018-02-01 14:34:27 Tomi Kyöstilä bug added subscriber Tomi Kyöstilä
2018-02-01 23:48:59 William Yam bug added subscriber William Yam
2018-02-05 23:46:12 Iiridayn bug task added linux (Arch Linux)
2018-03-10 17:06:36 cm bug added subscriber cm
2018-03-16 13:24:33 Vitaly Karpenko bug added subscriber Vitaly Karpenko
2018-03-27 20:08:30 Mariusz Szczepańczyk removed subscriber Mariusz Szczepańczyk
2018-03-29 08:26:12 Lancillotto attachment added mem-eater https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/159356/+attachment/5094516/+files/mem-eater
2018-04-02 01:56:14 Daniel Aleksandersen bug watch added https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1472336
2018-04-02 01:56:14 Daniel Aleksandersen bug task added fedora
2018-04-02 02:37:43 Bug Watch Updater fedora: status Unknown Confirmed
2018-04-02 02:37:43 Bug Watch Updater fedora: importance Unknown Medium
2018-04-02 02:37:47 Bug Watch Updater bug watch added https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1357032
2018-05-29 18:29:42 Bug Watch Updater fedora: status Confirmed Won't Fix
2018-06-07 17:57:59 tlc bug added subscriber tlc
2018-06-13 04:14:01 Denis Kalinin bug added subscriber Denis Kalinin
2018-06-30 21:31:38 penalvch summary System freeze on high memory usage System freeze on high memory usage when DMA is disabled
2018-06-30 21:31:43 penalvch bug task deleted linux (Ubuntu)
2018-06-30 21:31:57 Launchpad Janitor linux (Ubuntu): status New Confirmed
2018-06-30 21:31:57 penalvch affects linux (Arch Linux) linux (Ubuntu)
2018-06-30 21:31:57 penalvch linux (Ubuntu): status New Incomplete
2018-06-30 21:32:08 penalvch bug task deleted linux (Ubuntu)
2018-06-30 21:32:22 penalvch affects fedora ubuntu
2018-06-30 21:32:22 penalvch ubuntu: importance Medium Undecided
2018-06-30 21:32:22 penalvch ubuntu: status Won't Fix New
2018-06-30 21:32:22 penalvch ubuntu: remote watch Red Hat Bugzilla #1472336
2018-06-30 21:32:38 penalvch ubuntu: importance Undecided Low
2018-06-30 21:32:38 penalvch ubuntu: status New Incomplete
2018-06-30 21:32:48 penalvch affects ubuntu linux (Ubuntu)
2018-06-30 21:33:09 penalvch bug added subscriber jecks
2018-07-01 06:51:55 Tobias Hangleiter removed subscriber Tobias Hangleiter
2018-08-31 14:04:15 kd4ua506I9uzkaa attachment added le9b.patch https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/159356/+attachment/5183022/+files/le9b.patch
2018-08-31 16:22:14 Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot tags dapper needs-upstream-testing dapper needs-upstream-testing patch
2018-08-31 16:22:15 Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot bug added subscriber Joseph Salisbury
2018-08-31 16:55:58 Vitaly Karpenko removed subscriber Vitaly Karpenko
2018-09-01 01:00:56 penalvch summary System freeze on high memory usage when DMA is disabled When DMA is disabled system freeze on high memory usage
2018-09-01 01:01:09 penalvch tags dapper needs-upstream-testing patch dapper needs-upstream-testing
2018-09-23 09:20:59 kd4ua506I9uzkaa attachment added le9d.patch https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/159356/+attachment/5191960/+files/le9d.patch
2018-09-23 12:21:54 Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot tags dapper needs-upstream-testing dapper needs-upstream-testing patch
2018-09-24 19:47:16 lou bug watch added https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1577528
2018-10-02 04:17:17 Samuel Leslie bug added subscriber Samuel Leslie
2018-12-24 17:25:05 Simon May bug added subscriber Simon May
2019-01-18 13:37:51 chernuubyl bug added subscriber schertudi
2019-01-18 15:31:07 Alfonso bug task added linux (Arch Linux)
2019-01-19 17:11:43 Joseph Salisbury removed subscriber Joseph Salisbury
2019-02-14 11:38:01 Cachapa bug added subscriber Cachapa
2019-02-14 14:09:30 Lena Wildervanck bug added subscriber Tijmen Wildervanck
2019-02-28 23:53:11 Keith Hutton bug added subscriber Keith Hutton
2019-04-06 18:30:42 h removed subscriber h
2019-07-24 21:19:18 Brad Figg tags dapper needs-upstream-testing patch cscc dapper needs-upstream-testing patch
2019-09-25 23:24:56 kd4ua506I9uzkaa attachment added keep Active(file) above certain threshold to avoid constant disk reading when memory pressure https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/159356/+attachment/5291340/+files/le9h.patch
2019-09-26 00:22:00 Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot bug added subscriber Terry Rudd
2020-04-13 14:57:17 Balázs Orbán bug added subscriber Balázs Orbán
2020-09-23 13:18:38 gmc bug added subscriber gmc
2020-10-24 02:03:25 Jan Larres bug added subscriber Jan Larres
2021-02-28 07:07:15 Mikko Rytkönen removed subscriber Mikko Rytkönen
2021-05-07 05:36:50 Saptarshi Roy bug added subscriber Saptarshi Roy
2021-07-01 19:08:55 Mihai Capotă bug added subscriber Mihai Capotă
2022-01-09 09:53:09 codywohlers bug added subscriber codywohlers
2022-04-22 05:52:36 Dennis Schridde bug task added gentoo
2022-04-22 05:53:07 Dennis Schridde bug added subscriber Dennis Schridde