Bug 683403

Summary: oomkiller invoked on F15 while starting installer on system with 512MB RAM
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Stefan Assmann <sassmann>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Will Woods <wwoods>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Stefan Assmann 2011-03-09 11:09:39 UTC 
Description of problem:
When installing F15 on a machine with 512MB RAM oomkiller gets invoked while unpacking initramfs.

[    0.259925] pci 0000:00:01.0: PIIX3: Enabling Passive Release
[    0.261044] pci 0000:00:01.0: Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds
[    0.262474] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
[    3.410442] swapper invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x200d2, order=0, oom_adj=0, oom_score_adj=0
[    3.412076] swapper cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
[    3.413052] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.38-0.rc5.git1.1.fc15.i686 #1
[    3.414406] Call Trace:
[    3.414937]  [<c04adce2>] ? dump_header.isra.7+0x7a/0x19a
[    3.415992]  [<c04ae1e9>] ? select_bad_process.constprop.12+0x39/0xc4
[    3.417229]  [<c04ae4e5>] ? out_of_memory+0xfc/0x1a7
[    3.418175]  [<c04b130b>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x4f5/0x633
[    3.419290]  [<c0455d20>] ? sched_clock_local+0x10/0x18b
[    3.420305]  [<c04ab45f>] ? __page_cache_alloc+0x1c/0x1e
[    3.421327]  [<c04ac314>] ? grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x47/0x87
[    3.422519]  [<c04fc672>] ? simple_write_begin+0x29/0x70
[    3.423541]  [<c04abe4a>] ? generic_file_buffered_write+0xcc/0x1cd
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How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install F15 alpha with 512MB RAM (I reproduced it on F14 in a VM)
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Actual results:
unable to install F15 with 512MB RAM

Expected results:
able to install F15 with 512MB RAM

Additional info:
Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2011-03-09 15:07:28 UTC 
wwoods is working on decreasing memory usage.  In the meantime, you'll need to make more memory available to your VM.
Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2011-03-15 12:47:46 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 682555 ***