From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Karl Vogel <karl.vogel@seagha.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
karl.vogel@pandora.be, axboe@suse.de, wli@holomorphy.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.8.1: swap storm of death - nr_requests > 1024 on swap partition
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:25:31 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040831172531.GA18184@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408312024.32158.karl.vogel@seagha.com>
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 08:24:31PM +0200, Karl Vogel wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 August 2004 18:52, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > > Is there a concept of a minimum working set size of an application? (kind
> > > of the reverse of an RSS limit)
> >
> > Not really. A hungry memory app can starve the rest of the system.
>
> I noticed that a few times on our spamassassin box :-)
>
> > One thing: what kernel version are you using?
>
> 2.6.9-rc1-bk3
Can you try the same tests with 2.6.8.1 and check the difference, pretty please?
> > I've seen extreme decreases in performance (interactivity) with hungry
> > memory apps with Rik's swap token code.
>
> Decrease?!
Yep, its odd. Rik knows the exact reason.
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2004-08-28 21:43 ` Kernel 2.6.8.1: swap storm of death - nr_requests > 1024 on swap partition Andrew Morton
2004-08-28 21:54 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-28 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-28 22:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 10:30 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-29 14:15 ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-29 14:17 ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-29 14:45 ` Rik van Riel
2004-08-29 20:18 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-29 20:30 ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-29 20:59 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-29 22:17 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 22:28 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-30 7:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-08-30 15:20 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-30 18:01 ` Karl Vogel
2004-08-30 17:16 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-30 22:59 ` Karl Vogel
2004-08-30 20:33 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-30 22:37 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-30 22:17 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-30 23:51 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-31 10:23 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-31 16:02 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-31 17:50 ` Karl Vogel
2004-08-31 16:52 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-31 18:24 ` Karl Vogel
2004-08-31 17:25 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2004-08-31 19:36 ` Karl Vogel
2004-09-02 9:05 ` Rik van Riel
2004-08-30 23:02 ` Karl Vogel
2004-08-29 16:54 ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-29 17:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-28 21:59 ` Karl Vogel
2004-08-29 16:53 ` Jens Axboe
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