System hangs with a lot of blocked tasks waiting on semaphore in memory subsystem due to memory pressure.
Issue
- System hangs with a lot of blocked tasks waiting on semaphore in memory subsystem due to memory pressure.
crash> log | grep blocked
INFO: task khugepaged:102 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
INFO: task cmahostd:17971 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
INFO: task opcmona:17184 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
INFO: task opcmona:17190 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
INFO: task opcmona:17191 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
INFO: task opcmona:17193 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
INFO: task opcmona:17194 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
INFO: task opcmona:17195 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
INFO: task opcmona:17198 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
INFO: task esb_vri_gate:63570 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
crash> kmem -i
PAGES TOTAL PERCENTAGE
TOTAL MEM 16320407 62.3 GB ----
FREE 10877248 41.5 GB 66% of TOTAL MEM
USED 5443159 20.8 GB 33% of TOTAL MEM
SHARED 23992 93.7 MB 0% of TOTAL MEM
BUFFERS 11418 44.6 MB 0% of TOTAL MEM
CACHED 4250750 16.2 GB 26% of TOTAL MEM
SLAB 177995 695.3 MB 1% of TOTAL MEM
TOTAL SWAP 524286 2 GB ----
SWAP USED 96220 375.9 MB 18% of TOTAL SWAP
SWAP FREE 428066 1.6 GB 81% of TOTAL SWAP
COMMIT LIMIT 8684489 33.1 GB ----
COMMITTED 1957006 7.5 GB 22% of TOTAL LIMIT
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Veritas Filesystem (VxFS)
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