hoytech / vmtouch

Portable file system cache diagnostics and control
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vmtouch failing to mlockall >1g suddenly (maybe update?) #107

Open agowa opened 6 months ago

agowa commented 6 months ago

Hi,

after rebooting a server vmtouch (v1.3.1) now suddenly (probably forgot to reboot after updating) fails to lock more than 1G. Even with ulimits increased an arbitrary high -m parameters to it.

It stops at exactly 500259 pages (1G) each time. I have (currently) still 4G memory completely free and ulimits (after poking it) are:

# ulimit -a
real-time non-blocking time  (microseconds, -R) unlimited
core file size              (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size               (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority                 (-e) 0
file size                   (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals                     (-i) 23578
max locked memory           (kbytes, -l) 10485760
max memory size             (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                          (-n) 999999
pipe size                (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues         (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority                  (-r) 0
stack size                  (kbytes, -s) 8388608
cpu time                   (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes                  (-u) 23578
virtual memory              (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks                          (-x) unlimited

# cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_CODENAME=trixie
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

Example commands I used to poke at this issue (all ran as root):

What limit is this hitting? Maybe a regression of #35 sounds most likely atm. Am I missing something?

Edit: after further testing: vmtouch -L -p 0-100k -f /opt/mycachefiles/ => vmtouch: WARNING: unable to mmap file X (Cannot allocate memory), skipping and LOCKED 669225 pages (2G) So is this some kind of file descriptor limit (other than ulimit -n?)

Edit 2: Probably not. The issue appears to be specific to the combination of -l/L and -p:

           Files: 92867
     Directories: 873
  Resident Pages: 1232468/1854039  4G/7G  66.5%
         Elapsed: 3.0882 seconds