[OE-core] [PATCH] core-image-sato-sdk: test image with 512M memory

[Kang Kai]

On 2019/8/12 下午4:57, Kang Kai wrote:
> On 2019/7/27 下午4:42, Kang Kai wrote:
>> On 2019/7/27 上午5:40, richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2019-07-26 at 05:23 -0400, kai.kang at windriver.com wrote:
>>>> From: Kai Kang <kai.kang at windriver.com>
>>>>
>>>> When run do_testimage for core-image-sato-sdk, it fails to pass test
>>>> case:
>>>>
>>>>> RESULTS - systemd.SystemdBasicTests.test_systemd_failed: FAILED
>>>>> (0.43s)
>>>> It is OOM issue and daemon rpc.statd is killed:
>>>>
>>>>>   [  531.306146] Out of memory: Kill process 193 (rpc.statd) score
>>>>> 200 or sacrifice child
>>>> Increase the memory of qemu to 512M to avoid such OOM issue.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Kai Kang <kai.kang at windriver.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>   meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato-sdk.bb | 1 +
>>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato-sdk.bb
>>>> b/meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato-sdk.bb
>>>> index d7cc52b52b..f7963d018e 100644
>>>> --- a/meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato-sdk.bb
>>>> +++ b/meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato-sdk.bb
>>>> @@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ IMAGE_FEATURES += "dev-pkgs tools-sdk \
>>>>     IMAGE_INSTALL += "kernel-devsrc"
>>>>   +TEST_QEMUPARAMS = "-m 512"
>>> Any idea what is using so much memory in the image when this happens?
>>>
>>> Its rather sad that we can't have NFS+systemd with 256MB memory...
>>
>> It caused by stap test case. I minimized the test cases to
>>
>> TEST_SUITES = "ping date ssh systemd stap kernelmodule gcc "
>>
>> which could reproduce the error.
>>
>> And it PASSes testimage that remove stap test from default TEST_SUITES:
>>
>> TEST_SUITES_remove = 'stap'
>>
>> But I can't reproduce the OOM failure to run stap tests manually.
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> The root cause of test case stap fails is available memory is too low. 
> Compare systemd with sysvinit, memory status are listed:
>
> systemd:
> root at qemux86:~# free -h
>               total        used        free      shared buff/cache   
> available
> Mem:          239Mi       120Mi        23Mi       8.0Mi 94Mi 100Mi
> Swap:            0B          0B          0B
>
> sysvinit:
> root at qemux86:~# free -h
>               total        used        free      shared buff/cache   
> available
> Mem:          239Mi        45Mi       111Mi       0.0Ki 82Mi 184Mi
> Swap:            0B          0B          0B
>
>
> With systemd, processes of rpc.statd and rpc.mountd take about less 
> than 80M memories.
> And I compared with Debian 10, they take similar size of memories.
>
> PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 464 rpcuser   20   0   56316  51336   2192 S   0.0  20.9   0:00.09 
> rpc.statd
>   186 root      20   0   30136  27024   2280 S   0.0  11.0 0:00.02 
> rpc.mountd
>
>
> Compare to sysvinit, they take only about 2M and 448K:
>
>  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
>   567 rpcuser   20   0    3444   2372   1792 S   0.0   1.0 0:00.00 
> rpc.statd
>   677 root      20   0    3700    448      0 S   0.0   0.2 0:00.00 
> rpc.mountd
>
>
> I didn't figure out the differences between these 2 ways to start the 
> commands:
>
> ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rpc.statd -F $STATD_OPTS
>
> Vs.
>
> test -x "$NFS_STATD" || NFS_STATD=/usr/sbin/rpc.statd
> start-stop-daemon --start --exec "$NFS_STATD" --pidfile "$STATD_PID"

Hi Richard,

Any more comment here please?

Regards,
Kai



>
>
> Regards,
> Kai
>
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kai
>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>>
>>
>

-- 
Kai Kang