More strangeness.. 
     
    If I keep the kernel module loaded, but disable the entry in
    /etc/network/interfaces for eth0, the oom_adj problem disappears.
    But then ofc, I'm left with no network interface. I then tried
    binding /etc/ssh/sshd_config to only listen on 127.0.0.1..
    effectively bypassing the eth0 interface, whilst still allowing it
    to be loaded. But the problem still happens. 
     
    As a last ditch attempt, I tried restarting the ssh daemon from the
    command line. 
     
    I have pretty much explored almost every single option I can think
    of.. I now have absolutely no idea why this is happening. 
     
    So, I've opted for the hacky fix of putting the following into
    /etc/profile and /etc/bash.bashrc: 
     
    echo 0 > /proc/self/oom_adj 
     
    This ensures all shell sessions start off with an oom_adj of 0. This
    is *EXTREMELY* hacky, and I'd certainly hope to see that the debian
    devs fix this issue in the future. 
     
    Cal 
     
     
    On 30/05/2011 20:27, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote:
    
      
      Bit more info: 
       
      root@vicky:~# ethtool -i eth0 
      driver: bnx2 
      version: 2.0.2 
      firmware-version: 5.0.11 NCSI 2.0.5 
      bus-info: 0000:02:00.0 
      root@vicky:~# 
       
      Btw, to make 100% sure it was the bnx2 module which was causing
      the issue, I removed bnx2 from auto loading at boot time (on the
      broken server), ran the same check, and the issue had been
      resolved. But this meant I had no network card lol. 
       
      I also tried disabling MSI by using kernel boot param: pci=nomsi,
      and this didn't seem to do anything. 
       
      Cal 
       
       
      On 30/05/2011 18:37, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote:
      
        
         
        Here is an strace of the SSH process (which is somehow
        inheriting the -17 oom_adj on all forked user instances) 
         
        (broken server - with bnx2 module loaded) 
        [pid  2200] [    7f13a09c9cb0] open("/proc/self/oom_adj",
        O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666 <unfinished ...> 
        [pid  2120] [    7f13a09c9f00] write(7, "\0\0\2\240\n\n\n\nPort
        22\n\n\n\nProtocol 2\n\nH"..., 680 <unfinished ...> 
        [pid  2200] [    7f13a09c9cb0] <... open resumed> ) = 9 
        [pid  2120] [    7f13a09c9f00] <... write resumed> ) = 680 
        [pid  2120] [    7f13a09c9e40] close(7 <unfinished ...> 
        [pid  2200] [    7f13a09c9844] fstat(9,  <unfinished ...> 
        [pid  2120] [    7f13a09c9e40] <... close resumed> ) = 0 
        [pid  2200] [    7f13a09c9844] <... fstat resumed>
        {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 
        [pid  2120] [    7f13a09c9e40] close(8 <unfinished ...> 
        [pid  2200] [    7f13a09d2a2a] mmap(NULL, 4096,
        PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0
        <unfinished ...> 
        [pid  2120] [    7f13a09c9e40] <... close resumed> ) = 0 
        [pid  2200] [    7f13a09d2a2a] <... mmap resumed> ) =
        0x7f13a25a6000 
        [pid  2120] [    7f13a09c9e40] close(4 <unfinished ...> 
        [pid  2200] [    7f13a09c9f00] write(9, "-17\n", 4
        <unfinished ...> 
         
         
        (working server - with bnx2 module unloaded) 
        [pid  1323] [    7fae577fbe40] close(7) = 0 
        [pid  1631] [    7fae577fbcb0] open("/proc/self/oom_adj",
        O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666 <unfinished ...> 
        [pid  1323] [    7fae577fbf00] write(8, "\0\0\2\217\0", 5
        <unfinished ...> 
        [pid  1631] [    7fae577fbcb0] <... open resumed> ) = 10 
        [pid  1323] [    7fae577fbf00] <... write resumed> ) = 5 
        [pid  1323] [    7fae577fbf00] write(8, "\0\0\2\206\n\n\n\nPort
        22\n\n\n\nProtocol 2\n\nH"..., 654 <unfinished ...> 
        [pid  1631] [    7fae577fb844] fstat(10,  <unfinished ...> 
        [pid  1323] [    7fae577fbf00] <... write resumed> ) = 654 
        [pid  1631] [    7fae577fb844] <... fstat resumed>
        {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 
        [pid  1323] [    7fae577fbe40] close(8) = 0 
        [pid  1631] [    7fae57804a2a] mmap(NULL, 4096,
        PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0
        <unfinished ...> 
        [pid  1323] [    7fae577fbe40] close(9 <unfinished ...> 
        [pid  1631] [    7fae57804a2a] <... mmap resumed> ) =
        0x7fae593d9000 
        [pid  1323] [    7fae577fbe40] <... close resumed> ) = 0 
        [pid  1323] [    7fae577fbe40] close(5 <unfinished ...> 
        [pid  1631] [    7fae577fbf00] write(10, "0\n", 2 <unfinished
        ...> 
         
        The two servers are *EXACT* duplicates of each other, completely
        fresh Debian installs, with exactly the same packages installed. 
         
        As you can see, the working server sends "0" into the oom_adj
        and the broken one sends "-17". 
         
         
        On 30/05/2011 15:25, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote:
        
          
          To eliminate the possibility of this being hardware related,
          or ISO related, I performed two new fresh installs. One on the
          (previously working) server, and  
           
          another one (using the firmware modified ISO - from the debian
          'unofficial' downloads page) into a VirtualBox machine. I then
          installed openssh-server on both  
           
          servers, rebooted, and checked the results of both. 
           
          Firmware modified ISO + openssh-server - OOM bug not present. 
          Non firmware modified ISO + openssh-server - OOM bug not
          present. 
           
          So, a fresh install on a VirtualBox machine (using the exact
          same install CD ISO as the broken server), and the old machine
          (using the official release),  
           
          shows that the bug is not happening..  The only thing that I
          can think is different, is that the broken server uses
          'firmware-bnx2'.. so I purged the bnx2  
           
          package, removed the bnx*.ko files from /lib/modules, ran
          update-initramfs, and then rebooted (i then confirmed it was
          removed by checking ifconfig and  
           
          lsmod). 
           
          And guess what.. IT FUCKING WORKED. 
           
          So, this problem seems to be caused by the firmware-bnx2
          module being loaded.. some how, that module is causing -17
          oom_adj to be set for everything.. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
           
           
          On 30/05/2011 14:09, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote:
          
            
            
            Please note, the way I am detecting if the oom_adj bug is
            present, is by checking if the sshd user processes are -17.
            If they are, then the bug is present. 
             
            ATTEMPT 1: 
             
            apt-get install hashalot cryptsetup make g++ cpp automake
            ncurses-dev bison flex curl build-essential kernel-package
            locales locales-all 
             - oom problem not found 
             
            (pre-built from previous install) 
            dpkg -i
            linux-headers-2.6.32.41-grsec_2.6.32.41-grsec-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb
linux-image-2.6.32.41-grsec_2.6.32.41-grsec-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb 
             - oom problem not found 
             
            (booted into new kernel) 
            shutdown -r now 
             - oom problem DETECTED!!! 
             
            (booted into old kernel) 
            dpkg --purge linux-image-2.6.32.41-grsec
            linux-headers-2.6.32.41-grsec 
            shutdown -r now 
             - oom problem DETECTED!!! Hmmmm.... 
             
            apt-get purge hashalot cryptsetup make g++ cpp automake
            ncurses-dev bison flex curl build-essential kernel-package
            locales locales-all 
            shutdown -r now 
             - oom problem STILL DETECTED!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
             
             
            So, it would appear that either the kernel install or the
            "apt-get" caused irreversible changes on the system... 
             
            REINSTALL ATTEMPT 2: 
            (this time, I'm going to use tripwire to detect filesystem
            changes between each reboot) 
             
            Installed openssh-server and configured tripwire. 
            Made test modification to /usr/sbin and ran tripwire, to
            ensure its logging correctly. 
             - oom problem not found 
             
            rebooted 
             - oom problem DETECTED!! 
             
            Purged openssh-server 
             - oom problem not found 
             
            Reinstalled openssh-server 
             - oom problem not found 
             
            rebooted 
             - oom problem DETECTED 
             
            So, we've now pinpointed it down to the openssh package...
            This makes sense, because the oom_adj is inherited from
            whatever binary the process forks from.. In  
             
            this case, the LXCs are started up from an ssh session,
            which is why it inherits the ssh -17 oom_adj. 
             
            Here is what tripwire is reporting has changed: 
             
            Modified: 
            "/usr/sbin" 
            "/usr/sbin/sshd" 
            "/usr/lib" 
            "/usr/lib/openssh" 
            "/usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server" 
            "/usr/lib/sftp-server" 
            "/var/run/acpid.pid" 
            "/var/run/acpid.socket" 
            "/var/run/atd.pid" 
            "/var/run/crond.pid" 
            "/var/run/crond.reboot" 
            "/var/run/exim4/exim.pid" 
            "/var/run/mdadm/monitor.pid" 
            "/var/run/portmap.pid" 
            "/var/run/portmap_mapping" 
            "/var/run/rpc.statd.pid" 
            "/var/run/rsyslogd.pid" 
            "/var/run/sm-notify.pid" 
            "/var/log/dmesg.0" 
            "/etc" 
            "/etc/adjtime" 
            "/etc/default" 
            "/etc/default/ssh" 
            "/etc/lvm/cache" 
            "/etc/lvm/cache/.cache" 
            "/etc/mtab" 
            "/etc/network/if-up.d" 
            "/etc/network/if-up.d/openssh-server" 
            "/etc/network/run" 
            "/etc/network/run/ifstate" 
            "/etc/pam.d" 
            "/etc/pam.d/sshd" 
            "/etc/passwd-" 
            "/etc/shadow-" 
            "/etc/ssh" 
            "/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key" 
            "/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub" 
            "/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key" 
            "/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub" 
            "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" 
            "/etc/tripwire" 
            "/etc/ufw" 
            "/etc/ufw/applications.d" 
            "/etc/ufw/applications.d/openssh-server" 
            "/etc/init.d" 
            "/etc/init.d/.depend.boot" 
            "/etc/init.d/.depend.start" 
            "/etc/init.d/.depend.stop" 
            "/etc/init.d/ssh" 
            "/etc/rc2.d" 
            "/etc/rc2.d/S18ssh" 
            "/etc/rc3.d" 
            "/etc/rc3.d/S18ssh" 
            "/etc/rc4.d" 
            "/etc/rc4.d/S18ssh" 
            "/etc/rc5.d" 
            "/etc/rc5.d/S18ssh" 
            "/etc/passwd" 
            "/etc/shadow" 
            "/root" 
            "/root/.nano_history" 
             
            Added: 
            "/var/log/dmesg.1.gz" 
            "/var/log/dmesg.2.gz" 
            "/root/.bash_history" 
             
            Removed: 
            "/etc/nologin" 
             
            I thought maybe the reason this is happening is because ssh
            (when being started from rc.d) is inheriting the -17 from
            init.. but it appears init doesn't have  
             
            -17: 
             
            root@vicky:~# cat /proc/1/oom_adj 
            0 
             
            Then I thought maybe its because the ssh versions are diff,
            but they are not: 
             
            root@vicky:/home/foxx# dpkg -l | grep openssh-server 
            ii  openssh-server                     
            1:5.5p1-6                    secure shell (SSH) server, for
            secure access from remote machines 
             
             root@courtney.internal
            [/home/foxx] > dpkg -l | grep openssh-server 
            ii  openssh-server                     
            1:5.5p1-6                    secure shell (SSH) server, for
            secure access from remote machines 
             
            foxx@vicky:~$ md5sum /usr/sbin/sshd 
            f8c11462e8f2a7bf80e212e06041492b  /usr/sbin/sshd 
             
             root@courtney.internal
            [/home/foxx] > md5sum /usr/sbin/sshd 
            f8c11462e8f2a7bf80e212e06041492b  /usr/sbin/sshd 
             
            Then I made sure that the sshd_config's matched, and that I
            was using the same login process for both (shared key
            only)... they both matched, yet the problem  
             
            still happens.. 
             
            Then I thought maybe it's inheriting from the sshd server
            process, but turns out that isn't it either: 
             
            (broken server) 
            root      1583  0.0  0.0  49168  1140 ?        Ss   12:42  
            0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd 
            root@vicky:~# cat /proc/1583/oom_adj 
            -17 
             
            (working server) 
            root      2105  0.0  0.0  49184  1152 ?        Ss   00:47  
            0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd 
             root@courtney.internal
            [/home/foxx] > cat /proc/2105/oom_adj 
            -17 
             
            So, I looked through the process tree to see where it was
            inheriting from at what stage.. 
             
            (working server) 
             root@courtney.internal
            [/home/foxx] > ps faux | grep sshd 
            (-17) root      2105  0.0  0.0  49184  1152 ?        Ss  
            00:47   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd 
            (0)   root      4735  0.0  0.0  76668  3356 ?        Ss  
            12:47   0:00  \_ sshd: foxx [priv] 
                  foxx      4740  0.0  0.0  76668  1644 ?        S   
            12:47   0:00      \_ sshd: foxx@pts/0 
                  root      4757  0.0  0.0 112344   876 pts/0    S+  
            12:48   0:00                          \_ grep sshd 
             
            (broken server) 
            foxx@vicky:~$ ps faux | grep sshd 
            (-17) root      1583  0.0  0.0  49168  1140 ?        Ss  
            12:42   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd 
            (-17) root      1616  0.0  0.0  70488  3376 ?        Ss  
            12:43   0:00  \_ sshd: root@pts/0 
            (-17) root      1685  0.2  0.0  70488  3292 ?        Ss  
            12:50   0:00  \_ sshd: foxx [priv] 
                  foxx      1688  0.0  0.0  70488  1576 ?        S   
            12:50   0:00      \_ sshd: foxx@pts/1 
                  foxx      1715  0.0  0.0   7544   840 pts/1    S+  
            12:50   0:00              \_ grep sshd 
             
            As you can see, the line where it says "sshd: foxx [priv]"
            is causing the -17 oom_adj. Accoridng to the documentation,
            this appears to be where the privilege  
             
            seperation takes place.  
             
            So, now I started to check the ssh packages themselves, and
            make sure the repos are exactly the same on both servers. At
            this point, I realise that the  
             
            working server is slightly out of date on the following
            packages: 
             
             root@courtney.internal
            [/home/foxx] > md5sum /etc/apt/sources.list 
            00bcf3cf28e2994f9b512f0a8ffb0765  /etc/apt/sources.list 
             
            root@vicky:/etc# md5sum /etc/apt/sources.list 
            00bcf3cf28e2994f9b512f0a8ffb0765  /etc/apt/sources.list 
             
             root@courtney.internal
            [/home/foxx] > apt-get upgrade 
            The following packages will be upgraded: 
              bind9-host dnsutils exim4 exim4-base exim4-config
            exim4-daemon-light host isc-dhcp-client isc-dhcp-common
            libbind9-60 libdns69 libisc62 libisccc60 
              libisccfg62 liblwres60 linux-base
            linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 linux-libc-dev sd-agent 
             
            The one that springs immediately to my attention is
            linux-base.  
             
            (working server) 
             root@courtney.internal
            [/home/foxx] > dpkg -l | grep linux-base 
            ii  linux-base                         
            2.6.32-31                    Linux image base package 
             
            (broken server) 
            root@vicky:/etc# dpkg -l | grep linux-base 
            ii  linux-base                         
            2.6.32-34squeeze1            Linux image base package 
             
            Sooooo, I bite the bullet, and perform an upgrade of
            linux-base on the working server... 
             root@courtney.internal
            [/home/foxx] > apt-get install linux-base 
            Setting up linux-base (2.6.32-34squeeze1) ... 
             
            I then re-run the dryrun upgrade command this to make sure
            its upgraded: 
              bind9-host dnsutils exim4 exim4-base exim4-config
            exim4-daemon-light host isc-dhcp-client isc-dhcp-common
            libbind9-60 libdns69 libisc62 libisccc60 
              libisccfg62 liblwres60 linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64
            linux-libc-dev sd-agent 
            (as you can see its disappeared from the list) 
             
            I then reboot the server.. and wait for the longest 3
            minutes of my life.. But guess what... it didn't break :/
            So, I bite another bullet, and upgrade the  
             
            remaining packages on the server: 
              bind9-host dnsutils exim4 exim4-base exim4-config
            exim4-daemon-light host isc-dhcp-client isc-dhcp-common
            libbind9-60 libdns69 libisc62 libisccc60 
              libisccfg62 liblwres60 linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64
            linux-libc-dev sd-agent 
             
            I then make sure both servers are running the exact same
            stock kernel from Debian (as the working server was using an
            old kernel). 
             
            root@vicky:/etc# dpkg -l | grep linux | grep image 
            ii  linux-base                         
            2.6.32-34squeeze1            Linux image base package 
            ii  linux-image-2.6-amd64              
            2.6.32+29                    Linux 2.6 for 64-bit PCs
            (meta-package) 
            ii  linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64         
            2.6.32-34squeeze1            Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs 
             
             root@courtney.internal
            [/home/foxx] > dpkg -l | grep linux | grep image 
            ii  linux-base                         
            2.6.32-34squeeze1            Linux image base package 
            ii  linux-image-2.6-amd64              
            2.6.32+29                    Linux 2.6 for 64-bit PCs
            (meta-package) 
            ii  linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64         
            2.6.32-34squeeze1            Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs 
             
            root@vicky:/etc# uname -a 
            Linux vicky 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed May 18 23:13:22 UTC
            2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux 
             
             root@courtney.internal
            [/home/foxx] > uname -a 
            Linux courtney.internal 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed May 18
            23:13:22 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux 
             
            After another long 3 minute wait, I test for the oom bug...
            and guess what.. it's STILL NOT DOING IT!!! :( 
             
            So now I check for differences in the /etc/pam.d... I notice
            pam_cap.so is missing in common-auth on the broken server: 
             
             root@courtney.internal
            [/etc/pam.d] > dpkg -l | grep cap 
            ii  libcap2                            
            1:2.19-3                     support for getting/setting
            POSIX.1e capabilities 
            ii  libcap2-bin                        
            1:2.19-3                     basic utility programs for
            using capabilities 
             
            Broken server: 
              â PAM profiles to
            enable:                                                                                                                          
            â 
             
            â                                                                                                                                                  
            â 
              â    [*] Unix
            authentication                                                                                                                       
            â 
             
            Working server: 
              â    [*] Unix
            authentication                                                                                                                       
            â 
              â    [*] Inheritable Capabilities
            Management                                                                                                       
            â 
             
            So, I install 'libcap2-bin' on the broken server, reboot..
            and still no god damn luck. At this point /etc/pam.d on both
            servers are matching (md5sum matches  
             
            up on all files).. So now, I decide to check all files
            relating to openssh-server.. again, all matches up fine. 
             
            Then I start to get really pissed off, and check the md5sum
            for all files in /etc: 
             
            (left is working server, right is broken) 
             root@courtney.internal
            [/etc/pam.d] > diff /tmp/etcmd5-courtney
            /tmp/etcmd5-vicky -y --suppress-common-lines 
            a81fbd39142e18d5ed1fb8a7b3ecce71 
            /etc/adjtime                |
            fa9192c6cdaab85ec952576ab3139fd1  /etc/adjtime 
            7fcee51274f69cdf5d4c8b7be799637b 
            /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg        |
            1319acca28ae6475a915ca0684d0cd62  /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg 
            a3710991fcce0b1574586450c81095e1 
            /etc/apt/trusted.gpg        |
            d802712c9255f13bea3bea87b83180b1  /etc/apt/trusted.gpg 
            366d165a9f5de024d3a21b9dc51de057 
            /etc/bash.bashrc            |
            5b3c3bc73d236e4e1b6f9b6c1ed5964e  /etc/bash.bashrc 
            109789e71a8cf8e21302bf44b5b716f7 
            /etc/blkid.tab              |
            aa0de4c3c85ae212f6c59b6b89b21b9a  /etc/blkid.tab 
            2de357d9da09d738c179e8d269696b9c 
            /etc/blkid.tab.old          |
            aa0de4c3c85ae212f6c59b6b89b21b9a  /etc/blkid.tab.old 
            22133b5bd4023d48b50863d2b1c7b25e 
            /etc/console-setup/cached.k |
            bdd92d16a8172f9e7ea3f866b59b4fc4 
            /etc/console-setup/cached.k 
            b88b0f0a4d3b4beec0cc4b09b6c2aaea 
            /etc/cron.daily/ntp         < 
            4e5aa59f38b520c5a45d3fdc7cdec46c 
            /etc/cron.daily/sysstat     |
            d1e8b20b26a33a6a0781d59bc312442e  /etc/cron.daily/tripwire 
            455c3c071b6daabb4e4490828975034c 
            /etc/cron.d/sysstat         < 
            1cffe509bba095a0f7ece99a971e6e9a 
            /etc/crypttab               < 
            756141f7eacf1a272a2f6e51646b3aa4 
            /etc/default/cryptdisks     < 
            6bba39eb6c39aef755f1fadb48ded5a5 
            /etc/default/lxc            < 
            cd7a62fbb18fa8fe5893dee93064b328 
            /etc/default/ntp            < 
            e0d7efac23e911c65f44b08de446e837 
            /etc/default/rsync          < 
            21614b7a3d91ee06750feedbfdaec898 
            /etc/default/sysstat        < 
            fbc234ecd0f7e8bc1c394bbde5867be1 
            /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hoo < 
            1a2b9d0a869e2aa885ae3621c557fb95 
            /etc/dpkg/shlibs.default    < 
            84b1e69080569cc5c613a50887af5200 
            /etc/dpkg/shlibs.override   < 
            297521889d690871ec9d89c5eeff745a 
            /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50a < 
            c10e4cfb6fb21c281f04105d9482736a 
            /etc/exim4/update-exim4.con |
            2109f7e59c5d7ab2431aad0f095e2e34 
            /etc/exim4/update-exim4.con 
            0bec0044c716f14083f72c42af543d16 
            /etc/fstab                  |
            ab91b08889eb01fa6cd2364eba136ae8  /etc/fstab 
            c9457cf5b2196da67d5ac816d1c86a4f 
            /etc/fuse.conf              < 
            e030dc891a3af1f7779429b5c0554c98 
            /etc/gdb/gdbinit            < 
            5d151dd5c443ed7b2a5ded95740bf00d 
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            0fdf03b558e118edcf8ce29abaf296f1 
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            /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persis 
             
            I patched up the /etc/init.d/.depend.* files so the 'ssh'
            entries are matching.. still. no. luck 
             
            It's now 24 hours of trying to fix this issue, and I'm
            getting extremely pissed off :@ 
             
            If anyone could offer up some advice, it would be VERY much
            appreciated. 
             
            On 30/05/2011 01:24, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
            wrote:
            
              
              Another quick update on this... 
               
              Something really really really strange has happened this
              time.. I just did a completely fresh re-install (exactly
              like last time) and the problem went away. 
               
              So, I'm going to build up the lxc / kernel support step by
              step (and check for the oom_adj problem after each change)
              and will report back once I've found the step it kicks in
              at. 
               
              Hopefully, my hours of frustration will prevent someone
              else from going through the same thing :/ 
               
              Cal 
               
              On 29/05/2011 23:41, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
              wrote:
              
                
                After submitting this problem to Kernel mailing list, I
                found a strange (and even more curious problem). 
                 
                I attempted to run both kernels on two seperate installs
                of Debian (both 6.0), but slightly different in
                packages.. One install did not have the OOM problem, yet
                the other one did.. And they both ran the same kernel,
                the same LXC container etc.. 
                 
                I have a feeling this may be a Debian bug..? Further to
                back up these claims: 
                 
                Working server: 
                 root@courtney.internal
                [/mnt/encstore/lxc/github01.rootfs] > for x in `find
                /proc -iname 'oom_adj' | xargs grep "\-17"  | awk -F '/'
                '{print $3}'` ; do ps -p $x u --no-headers ; done 
                grep: /proc/3090/task/3090/oom_adj: No such file or
                directory 
                grep: /proc/3090/oom_adj: No such file or directory 
                root       804  0.0  0.0  16992  1112 ?        S<s 
                Mar17   0:00 udevd --daemon 
                root       804  0.0  0.0  16992  1112 ?        S<s 
                Mar17   0:00 udevd --daemon 
                root     25536  0.0  0.0  49164  1100 ?        Ss  
                Apr05   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd 
                root     25536  0.0  0.0  49164  1100 ?        Ss  
                Apr05   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd 
                root     32173  0.0  0.0  16988   960 ?        S<  
                21:53   0:00 udevd --daemon 
                root     32173  0.0  0.0  16988   960 ?        S<  
                21:53   0:00 udevd --daemon 
                root     32174  0.0  0.0  16988   916 ?        S<  
                21:53   0:00 udevd --daemon 
                root     32174  0.0  0.0  16988   916 ?        S<  
                21:53   0:00 udevd --daemon 
                 
                Broken server: 
                 root@vicky [/var] > for x in `find /proc -iname
                'oom_adj' | xargs grep "\-17"  | awk -F '/' '{print
                $3}'` ; do ps -p $x u --no-headers ; done 
                grep: /proc/4597/task/4597/oom_adj: No such file or
                directory 
                grep: /proc/4597/oom_adj: No such file or directory 
                root       889  0.0  0.0  16788   860 ?        S<s 
                09:10   0:00 udevd --daemon 
                root       889  0.0  0.0  16788   860 ?        S<s 
                09:10   0:00 udevd --daemon 
                root      1104  0.0  0.0  17228  1200 ?        S<  
                09:10   0:00 udevd --daemon 
                root      1104  0.0  0.0  17228  1200 ?        S<  
                09:10   0:00 udevd --daemon 
                root      1141  0.0  0.0  17120  1128 ?        S<  
                09:10   0:00 udevd --daemon 
                root      1141  0.0  0.0  17120  1128 ?        S<  
                09:10   0:00 udevd --daemon 
                root      2745  0.0  0.0  49168  1168 ?        Ss  
                09:10   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd 
                root      2745  0.0  0.0  49168  1168 ?        Ss  
                09:10   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd 
                root      2750  0.0  0.0  76672  3360 ?        Ss  
                09:11   0:00 sshd: foxx [priv] 
                root      2750  0.0  0.0  76672  3360 ?        Ss  
                09:11   0:00 sshd: foxx [priv] 
                foxx      2754  0.0  0.0  76672  1636 ?        S   
                09:11   0:00 sshd: foxx@pts/0 
                foxx      2754  0.0  0.0  76672  1636 ?        S   
                09:11   0:00 sshd: foxx@pts/0 
                foxx      2755  0.0  0.0 123984  1984 pts/0    Ss  
                09:11   0:00 -bash 
                foxx      2755  0.0  0.0 123984  1984 pts/0    Ss  
                09:11   0:00 -bash 
                root      2760  0.0  0.0 127176  1244 pts/0    S   
                09:11   0:00 sudo su 
                root      2760  0.0  0.0 127176  1244 pts/0    S   
                09:11   0:00 sudo su 
                root      2761  0.0  0.0 147820  1328 pts/0    S   
                09:11   0:00 su 
                root      2761  0.0  0.0 147820  1328 pts/0    S   
                09:11   0:00 su 
                root      2762  0.0  0.0 124084  2152 pts/0    S   
                09:11   0:00 bash 
                root      2762  0.0  0.0 124084  2152 pts/0    S   
                09:11   0:00 bash 
                 
                Notice how the sshd user instances on the broken server
                are set to -17, yet the sshd user instances on the
                working server, are not :S 
                 
                Any input from anyone on the below would be VERY much
                appreciated. 
                 
                Cal 
                 
                -------- Original Message --------
                
                 
                 
                Some further logs:
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:38 vicky kernel: [ 2283.369927] redis-server 
invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_adj=-17
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:38 vicky kernel: [ 2283.369939]  
[<ffffffff810b12b7>] ? oom_kill_process+0x82/0x283
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:38 vicky kernel: [ 2283.399285] redis-server 
invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_adj=-17
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:38 vicky kernel: [ 2283.399296]  
[<ffffffff810b12b7>] ? oom_kill_process+0x82/0x283
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:38 vicky kernel: [ 2283.428690] redis-server 
invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_adj=-17
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:38 vicky kernel: [ 2283.428702]  
[<ffffffff810b12b7>] ? oom_kill_process+0x82/0x283
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:38 vicky kernel: [ 2283.487696] redis-server 
invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_adj=-17
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:38 vicky kernel: [ 2283.487708]  
[<ffffffff810b12b7>] ? oom_kill_process+0x82/0x283
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:38 vicky kernel: [ 2283.517023] redis-server 
invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_adj=-17
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:38 vicky kernel: [ 2283.517035]  
[<ffffffff810b12b7>] ? oom_kill_process+0x82/0x283
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:38 vicky kernel: [ 2283.546379] redis-server 
invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_adj=-17
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:38 vicky kernel: [ 2283.546391]  
[<ffffffff810b12b7>] ? oom_kill_process+0x82/0x283
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:43 vicky kernel: [ 2288.310789] redis-server 
invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_adj=-17
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:43 vicky kernel: [ 2288.310804]  
[<ffffffff810b12b7>] ? oom_kill_process+0x82/0x283
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:43 vicky kernel: [ 2288.369918] redis-server 
invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_adj=-17
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:43 vicky kernel: [ 2288.369930]  
[<ffffffff810b12b7>] ? oom_kill_process+0x82/0x283
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:43 vicky kernel: [ 2288.399284] redis-server 
invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_adj=-17
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:43 vicky kernel: [ 2288.399296]  
[<ffffffff810b12b7>] ? oom_kill_process+0x82/0x283
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:43 vicky kernel: [ 2288.433634] redis-server 
invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_adj=-17
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:43 vicky kernel: [ 2288.433648]  
[<ffffffff810b12b7>] ? oom_kill_process+0x82/0x283
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:43 vicky kernel: [ 2288.463947] redis-server 
invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_adj=-17
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:43 vicky kernel: [ 2288.463959]  
[<ffffffff810b12b7>] ? oom_kill_process+0x82/0x283
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:43 vicky kernel: [ 2288.493439] redis-server 
invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_adj=-17
./log/syslog:May 30 07:44:43 vicky kernel: [ 2288.493451]  
[<ffffffff810b12b7>] ? oom_kill_process+0x82/0x283
On 29/05/2011 22:50, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote:
>  First of all, my apologies if I have submitted this problem to the 
> wrong place, spent 20 minutes trying to figure out where it needs to 
> be sent, and was still none the wiser.
>
> The problem is related to applying memory limitations within a cgroup. 
> If the OOM killer kicks in, it gets stuck in a loop where it tries to 
> kill a process which has an oom_adj of -17. This causes an infinite 
> loop, which in turn locks up the system.
>
> May 30 03:13:08 vicky kernel: [ 1578.117055] Memory cgroup out of 
> memory: kill process 6016 (java) score 0 or a child
> May 30 03:13:08 vicky kernel: [ 1578.117154] Memory cgroup out of 
> memory: kill process 6016 (java) score 0 or a child
> May 30 03:13:08 vicky kernel: [ 1578.117248] Memory cgroup out of 
> memory: kill process 6016 (java) score 0 or a child
> May 30 03:13:08 vicky kernel: [ 1578.117343] Memory cgroup out of 
> memory: kill process 6016 (java) score 0 or a child
> May 30 03:13:08 vicky kernel: [ 1578.117441] Memory cgroup out of 
> memory: kill process 6016 (java) score 0 or a child
>
>
>  root@vicky [/home/foxx] > uname -a
> Linux vicky 2.6.32.41-grsec #3 SMP Mon May 30 02:34:43 BST 2011 x86_64 
> GNU/Linux
> (this happens on both the grsec patched and non patched 2.6.32.41 kernel)
>
> When this is encountered, the memory usage across the whole server is 
> still within limits (not even hitting swap).
>
> The memory configuration for the cgroup/lxc is:
> lxc.cgroup.memory.limit_in_bytes = 3000M
> lxc.cgroup.memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes = 3128M
>
> Now, what is even more strange, is that when running under the 
> 2.6.32.28 kernel (both patched and unpatched), this problem doesn't 
> happen. However, there is a slight difference between the two kernels. 
> The 2.6.32.28 kernel gives a default of 0 in the /proc/X/oom_adj, 
> where as the 2.6.32.41 gives a default of -17. I suspect this is the 
> root cause of why it's showing in the later kernel, but not the earlier.
>
> To test this theory, I started up the lxc on both servers, and then 
> ran a one liner which showed me all the processes with an oom_adj of -17:
>
> (the below is the older/working kernel)
> root@courtney.internal [/mnt/encstore/lxc] > uname -a
> Linux courtney.internal 2.6.32.28-grsec #3 SMP Fri Feb 18 16:09:07 GMT 
> 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> root@courtney.internal [/mnt/encstore/lxc] > for x in `find /proc 
> -iname 'oom_adj' | xargs grep "\-17"  | awk -F '/' '{print $3}'` ; do 
> ps -p $x --no-headers ; done
> grep: /proc/1411/task/1411/oom_adj: No such file or directory
> grep: /proc/1411/oom_adj: No such file or directory
>   804 ?        00:00:00 udevd
>   804 ?        00:00:00 udevd
> 25536 ?        00:00:00 sshd
> 25536 ?        00:00:00 sshd
> 31861 ?        00:00:00 sshd
> 31861 ?        00:00:00 sshd
> 32173 ?        00:00:00 udevd
> 32173 ?        00:00:00 udevd
> 32174 ?        00:00:00 udevd
> 32174 ?        00:00:00 udevd
>
> (the below is the newer/broken kernel)
>  root@vicky [/mnt/encstore/ssd/kernel/linux-2.6.32.41] > uname -a
> Linux vicky 2.6.32.41-grsec #3 SMP Mon May 30 02:34:43 BST 2011 x86_64 
> GNU/Linux
>  root@vicky [/mnt/encstore/ssd/kernel/linux-2.6.32.41] > for x in 
> `find /proc -iname 'oom_adj' | xargs grep "\-17"  | awk -F '/' '{print 
> $3}'` ; do ps -p $x --no-headers ; done
> grep: /proc/3118/task/3118/oom_adj: No such file or directory
> grep: /proc/3118/oom_adj: No such file or directory
>   895 ?        00:00:00 udevd
>   895 ?        00:00:00 udevd
>  1091 ?        00:00:00 udevd
>  1091 ?        00:00:00 udevd
>  1092 ?        00:00:00 udevd
>  1092 ?        00:00:00 udevd
>  2596 ?        00:00:00 sshd
>  2596 ?        00:00:00 sshd
>  2608 ?        00:00:00 sshd
>  2608 ?        00:00:00 sshd
>  2613 ?        00:00:00 sshd
>  2613 ?        00:00:00 sshd
>  2614 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
>  2614 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
>  2620 pts/0    00:00:00 sudo
>  2620 pts/0    00:00:00 sudo
>  2621 pts/0    00:00:00 su
>  2621 pts/0    00:00:00 su
>  2622 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
>  2622 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
>  2685 ?        00:00:00 lxc-start
>  2685 ?        00:00:00 lxc-start
>  2699 ?        00:00:00 init
>  2699 ?        00:00:00 init
>  2939 ?        00:00:00 rc
>  2939 ?        00:00:00 rc
>  2942 ?        00:00:00 startpar
>  2942 ?        00:00:00 startpar
>  2964 ?        00:00:00 rsyslogd
>  2964 ?        00:00:00 rsyslogd
>  2964 ?        00:00:00 rsyslogd
>  2964 ?        00:00:00 rsyslogd
>  2980 ?        00:00:00 startpar
>  2980 ?        00:00:00 startpar
>  2981 ?        00:00:00 ctlscript.sh
>  2981 ?        00:00:00 ctlscript.sh
>  3016 ?        00:00:00 cron
>  3016 ?        00:00:00 cron
>  3025 ?        00:00:00 mysqld_safe
>  3025 ?        00:00:00 mysqld_safe
>  3032 ?        00:00:00 sshd
>  3032 ?        00:00:00 sshd
>  3097 ?        00:00:00 mysqld.bin
>  3097 ?        00:00:00 mysqld.bin
>  3097 ?        00:00:00 mysqld.bin
>  3097 ?        00:00:00 mysqld.bin
>  3097 ?        00:00:00 mysqld.bin
>  3097 ?        00:00:00 mysqld.bin
>  3097 ?        00:00:00 mysqld.bin
>  3097 ?        00:00:00 mysqld.bin
>  3097 ?        00:00:00 mysqld.bin
>  3097 ?        00:00:00 mysqld.bin
>  3113 ?        00:00:00 ctl.sh
>  3113 ?        00:00:00 ctl.sh
>  3115 ?        00:00:00 sleep
>  3115 ?        00:00:00 sleep
>  3116 ?        00:00:00 .memcached.bin
>  3116 ?        00:00:00 .memcached.bin
>
>
> As you can see, it is clear that the newer kernel is setting -17 by 
> default, which in turn is causing the OOM killer loop.
>
> So I began to try and find what may have caused this problem by 
> comparing the two sources...
>
> I checked the code for all references to 'oom_adj' and 'oom_adjust' in 
> both code sets, but found no obvious differences:
> grep -R -e oom_adjust -e oom_adj . | sort | grep -R -e oom_adjust -e 
> oom_adj
>
> Then I checked for references to "-17" in all .c and .h files, and 
> found a couple of matches, but only one obvious one:
> grep -R "\-17" . | grep -e ".c:" -e ".h:" -e "\-17" | wc -l
> ./include/linux/oom.h:#define OOM_DISABLE (-17)
>
> But again, a search for OOM_DISABLE came up with nothing obvious...
>
> In a last ditch attempt, I did a search for all references to 'oom' 
> (case-insensitive) in both code bases, then compared the two:
>  root@annabelle [~/lol/linux-2.6.32.28] > grep -i -R "oom" . | sort -n 
> > /tmp/annabelle.oom_adj
>  root@vicky [/mnt/encstore/ssd/kernel/linux-2.6.32.41] > grep -i -R 
> "oom" . | sort -n > /tmp/vicky.oom_adj
>
> and this brought back (yet again) nothing obvious..
>
>
>  root@vicky [/mnt/encstore/ssd/kernel/linux-2.6.32.41] > md5sum 
> ./include/linux/oom.h
> 2a32622f6cd38299fc2801d10a9a3ea8  ./include/linux/oom.h
>
>  root@annabelle [~/lol/linux-2.6.32.28] > md5sum ./include/linux/oom.h
> 2a32622f6cd38299fc2801d10a9a3ea8  ./include/linux/oom.h
>
>  root@vicky [/mnt/encstore/ssd/kernel/linux-2.6.32.41] > md5sum 
> ./mm/oom_kill.c
> 1ef2c2bec19868d13ec66ec22033f10a  ./mm/oom_kill.c
>
>  root@annabelle [~/lol/linux-2.6.32.28] > md5sum ./mm/oom_kill.c
> 1ef2c2bec19868d13ec66ec22033f10a  ./mm/oom_kill.c
>
>
>
> Could anyone please shed some light as to why the default oom_adj is 
> set to -17 now (and where it is actually set)? From what I can tell, 
> the fix for this issue will either be:
>
>   1. Allow OOM killer to override the decision of ignoring oom_adj ==
>      -17 if an unrecoverable loop is encountered.
>   2. Change the default back to 0.
>
> Again, my apologies if this bug report is slightly unorthodox, or 
> doesn't follow usual procedure etc. I can assure you I have tried my 
> absolute best to give all the necessary information though.
>
> Cal
>
               
               
             
             
           
           
         
         
       
       
     
     
  
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