Bug 1559176 - 1536M for live media isn't enough when things crash
Summary: 1536M for live media isn't enough when things crash
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: distribution
Version: 28
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Václav Pavlín
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-03-21 21:57 UTC by Chris Murphy
Modified: 2019-05-28 19:47 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-05-28 19:47:42 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
journal log (221.47 KB, text/plain)
2018-03-21 21:57 UTC, Chris Murphy
no flags Details
fedorabios.xml (4.34 KB, text/plain)
2018-03-21 22:48 UTC, Chris Murphy
no flags Details
journal VM 1G RAM log (237.97 KB, text/plain)
2018-03-22 04:07 UTC, Chris Murphy
no flags Details

Description Chris Murphy 2018-03-21 21:57:33 UTC
Created attachment 1411477 [details]
journal log

Description of problem:

PackageKit crashes, triggers systemd-coredump which then runs out of memory and things start invoking oom-killer and it all just goes downhill from there.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-28-20180320.n.0.iso

How reproducible:
It does reproduce eventually, but usually it's non-deterministic what will end up triggering the OOM. In this particular case, I haven't even launched anaconda or started navigating around. Just boot with defaults in a VM and eventually PK crashes and then coredump runs out of RAM. Ergo it's possible to do absolutely nothing and totally lose the VM and I don't know why.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Fedora 27 host with kernel 4.15.10-300.fc27.x86_64
2. virt-manager qemu-kvm guest created with Fedora 27 preset, nothing exotic, XML attached, and it has 1536MB RAM which is 50% more than the Fedora 27 requirements
3.

Actual results:

Becomes unresponsive, processes start getting killed off.

Expected results:

Should be stable.


Additional info:

The journal log attached is captured using 'virsh console' and 'journalctl -o short-monotonic' output to a file.

Comment 1 Chris Murphy 2018-03-21 22:48:51 UTC
Created attachment 1411508 [details]
fedorabios.xml

Comment 2 Chris Murphy 2018-03-22 04:07:11 UTC
Created attachment 1411583 [details]
journal VM 1G RAM log

Lower the VM to the 1G minimum requirement found on https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/ and it always explodes with oom killers before the desktop even fully appears.

Comment 3 Chris Murphy 2018-03-24 02:51:15 UTC
In this bug, anaconda invokes oom killer. The VM has 1.75G RAM and 2G swap.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1560146

Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 21:59:07 UTC
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Comment 5 Ben Cotton 2019-05-28 19:47:42 UTC
Fedora 28 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-05-28. Fedora 28 is
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