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[Bug 1513673] Re: 15.10 swapping heavily after process exceeds 50% physical RAM

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** Tags added: apport-collected wily

** Description changed:

  I am experiencing a memory management problem with 15.10 that I did not
  experience with 15.04.  I have a 24-core (48 thread) server with 64G of
  RAM.  I am getting some strange behavior with respect to swapping and
  physical memory use.
  
  You can see my problem in 'top':
  
  top - 18:52:09 up 1 day, 2:25, 3 users, load average: 1.64, 1.30, 1.18
  Tasks: 525 total, 2 running, 523 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
  %Cpu(s): 0.3 us, 1.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 97.0 id, 1.4 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
  KiB Mem: 65937528 total, 37526160 used, 28411368 free, 14396 buffers
  KiB Swap: 67071996 total, 67071724 used, 272 free. 104304 cached Mem
  
  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 
  363 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 100.0 0.0 324:02.98 kswapd0 
  6725 theosib 20 0 99.398g 0.034t 8920 D 12.0 55.1 59:08.71 common_shell_ex 
  
  There's a single user logged in (me), and I have a single process using
  a large amount of virtual memory. However, something is limiting it to
  around half the physical memory, while the swap partition is basically
  full. I've watched these processes (Synopsys Design Compiler) run, and
  they don't break the 50% mark until swap fills. And another weird thing
  is that kswapd0 uses very high (usually 100%) CPU. AFAIK, kswapd0 should
  be I/O bound and therefore not use a lot of CPU time.
  
  I've looked to see if there were any limits being imposed, but ulimit
  says otherwise:
  
  $ ulimit -a
  core file size (blocks, -c) 0
  data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
  scheduling priority (-e) 0
  file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
  pending signals (-i) 257447
  max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64
  max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
  open files (-n) 1024
  pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
  POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
  real-time priority (-r) 0
  stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192
  cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
  max user processes (-u) 257447
  virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
  file locks (-x) unlimited
  
  I've also tried setting swappiness to 10, but that didn't help.
  
  This is a pretty serious problem.  What used to take a few hours on
  15.04 now takes more than 5 to 10 times longer, because the process is
  forced to wait on swap, which is reading and writing at about 20M/sec
  each.  So it's hammering my SSD that contains the swap partition and
  going really slow.
  
- I've done some googling about kswapd0 using high CPU, and all I can work
- out is that some people think it's a kernel bug.
+ I've done some googling about kswapd0 using high CPU, and all I can work out is that some people think it's a kernel bug.
+ --- 
+ AlsaDevices:
+  total 0
+  crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  1 Nov  6 13:28 seq
+  crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 Nov  6 13:28 timer
+ AplayDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
+ ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu3
+ Architecture: amd64
+ ArecordDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
+ AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
+ DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
+ HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=e577be79-e4a4-41d9-b946-cd0cd50d05ba
+ InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-27 (709 days ago)
+ InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120424.1)
+ MachineType: Supermicro X9DRW
+ Package: linux (not installed)
+ PciMultimedia:
+  
+ ProcEnviron:
+  TERM=screen
+  PATH=(custom, no user)
+  XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
+  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
+ ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
+ ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.2.0-16-generic root=UUID=08710eb9-367c-4be0-ba25-700476f690fc ro
+ ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-16.19-generic 4.2.3
+ RelatedPackageVersions:
+  linux-restricted-modules-4.2.0-16-generic N/A
+  linux-backports-modules-4.2.0-16-generic  N/A
+  linux-firmware                            1.149
+ RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
+ Tags:  wily
+ Uname: Linux 4.2.0-16-generic x86_64
+ UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-10-26 (11 days ago)
+ UserGroups: adm audio cdrom dip kvm lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo video
+ _MarkForUpload: True
+ dmi.bios.date: 08/08/2013
+ dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
+ dmi.bios.version: 3.0a
+ dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
+ dmi.board.name: X9DRW
+ dmi.board.vendor: Supermicro
+ dmi.board.version: 0123456789
+ dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
+ dmi.chassis.type: 3
+ dmi.chassis.vendor: Supermicro
+ dmi.chassis.version: 0123456789
+ dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr3.0a:bd08/08/2013:svnSupermicro:pnX9DRW:pvr0123456789:rvnSupermicro:rnX9DRW:rvr0123456789:cvnSupermicro:ct3:cvr0123456789:
+ dmi.product.name: X9DRW
+ dmi.product.version: 0123456789
+ dmi.sys.vendor: Supermicro

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Title:
  15.10 swapping heavily after process exceeds 50% physical RAM

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I am experiencing a memory management problem with 15.10 that I did
  not experience with 15.04.  I have a 24-core (48 thread) server with
  64G of RAM.  I am getting some strange behavior with respect to
  swapping and physical memory use.

  You can see my problem in 'top':

  top - 18:52:09 up 1 day, 2:25, 3 users, load average: 1.64, 1.30, 1.18
  Tasks: 525 total, 2 running, 523 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
  %Cpu(s): 0.3 us, 1.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 97.0 id, 1.4 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
  KiB Mem: 65937528 total, 37526160 used, 28411368 free, 14396 buffers
  KiB Swap: 67071996 total, 67071724 used, 272 free. 104304 cached Mem

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 
  363 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 100.0 0.0 324:02.98 kswapd0 
  6725 theosib 20 0 99.398g 0.034t 8920 D 12.0 55.1 59:08.71 common_shell_ex 

  There's a single user logged in (me), and I have a single process
  using a large amount of virtual memory. However, something is limiting
  it to around half the physical memory, while the swap partition is
  basically full. I've watched these processes (Synopsys Design
  Compiler) run, and they don't break the 50% mark until swap fills. And
  another weird thing is that kswapd0 uses very high (usually 100%) CPU.
  AFAIK, kswapd0 should be I/O bound and therefore not use a lot of CPU
  time.

  I've looked to see if there were any limits being imposed, but ulimit
  says otherwise:

  $ ulimit -a
  core file size (blocks, -c) 0
  data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
  scheduling priority (-e) 0
  file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
  pending signals (-i) 257447
  max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64
  max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
  open files (-n) 1024
  pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
  POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
  real-time priority (-r) 0
  stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192
  cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
  max user processes (-u) 257447
  virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
  file locks (-x) unlimited

  I've also tried setting swappiness to 10, but that didn't help.

  This is a pretty serious problem.  What used to take a few hours on
  15.04 now takes more than 5 to 10 times longer, because the process is
  forced to wait on swap, which is reading and writing at about 20M/sec
  each.  So it's hammering my SSD that contains the swap partition and
  going really slow.

  I've done some googling about kswapd0 using high CPU, and all I can work out is that some people think it's a kernel bug.
  --- 
  AlsaDevices:
   total 0
   crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  1 Nov  6 13:28 seq
   crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 Nov  6 13:28 timer
  AplayDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  ArecordDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
  HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=e577be79-e4a4-41d9-b946-cd0cd50d05ba
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-27 (709 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120424.1)
  MachineType: Supermicro X9DRW
  Package: linux (not installed)
  PciMultimedia:
   
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=screen
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.2.0-16-generic root=UUID=08710eb9-367c-4be0-ba25-700476f690fc ro
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-16.19-generic 4.2.3
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   linux-restricted-modules-4.2.0-16-generic N/A
   linux-backports-modules-4.2.0-16-generic  N/A
   linux-firmware                            1.149
  RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  Tags:  wily
  Uname: Linux 4.2.0-16-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-10-26 (11 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm audio cdrom dip kvm lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo video
  _MarkForUpload: True
  dmi.bios.date: 08/08/2013
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: 3.0a
  dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
  dmi.board.name: X9DRW
  dmi.board.vendor: Supermicro
  dmi.board.version: 0123456789
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Supermicro
  dmi.chassis.version: 0123456789
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr3.0a:bd08/08/2013:svnSupermicro:pnX9DRW:pvr0123456789:rvnSupermicro:rnX9DRW:rvr0123456789:cvnSupermicro:ct3:cvr0123456789:
  dmi.product.name: X9DRW
  dmi.product.version: 0123456789
  dmi.sys.vendor: Supermicro

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