From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Over-eager swapping
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:13:46 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100818161346.GA12932@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100818155825.GA2370@arachsys.com>
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:58:25PM +0800, Chris Webb wrote:
> Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 23:21 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > > Andi, Christoph and Lee:
> > >
> > > This looks like an "unbalanced NUMA memory usage leading to premature
> > > swapping" problem.
> >
> > What is the value of the vm.zone_reclaim_mode sysctl? If it is !0, the
> > system will go into zone reclaim before allocating off-node pages.
> > However, it shouldn't "swap" in this case unless (zone_reclaim_mode & 4)
> > != 0. And even then, zone reclaim should only reclaim file pages, not
> > anon. In theory...
>
> Hi. This is zero on all our machines:
>
> # sysctl vm.zone_reclaim_mode
> vm.zone_reclaim_mode = 0
Chris, can you post /proc/vmstat on the problem machines?
Thanks,
Fengguang
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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Over-eager swapping
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:13:46 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100818161346.GA12932@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100818155825.GA2370@arachsys.com>
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:58:25PM +0800, Chris Webb wrote:
> Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 23:21 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > > Andi, Christoph and Lee:
> > >
> > > This looks like an "unbalanced NUMA memory usage leading to premature
> > > swapping" problem.
> >
> > What is the value of the vm.zone_reclaim_mode sysctl? If it is !0, the
> > system will go into zone reclaim before allocating off-node pages.
> > However, it shouldn't "swap" in this case unless (zone_reclaim_mode & 4)
> > != 0. And even then, zone reclaim should only reclaim file pages, not
> > anon. In theory...
>
> Hi. This is zero on all our machines:
>
> # sysctl vm.zone_reclaim_mode
> vm.zone_reclaim_mode = 0
Chris, can you post /proc/vmstat on the problem machines?
Thanks,
Fengguang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-18 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-02 12:47 Over-eager swapping Chris Webb
2010-08-02 12:47 ` Chris Webb
2010-08-02 23:55 ` Minchan Kim
2010-08-02 23:55 ` Minchan Kim
2010-08-03 3:31 ` Chris Webb
2010-08-03 3:31 ` Chris Webb
2010-08-03 4:09 ` Minchan Kim
2010-08-03 4:09 ` Minchan Kim
2010-08-03 4:28 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-03 4:28 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-03 4:47 ` Minchan Kim
2010-08-03 4:47 ` Minchan Kim
2010-08-03 6:39 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-03 6:39 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-03 21:49 ` Chris Webb
2010-08-03 21:49 ` Chris Webb
2010-08-04 2:21 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-04 2:21 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-04 3:10 ` Minchan Kim
2010-08-04 3:24 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-04 3:24 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-04 9:58 ` Chris Webb
2010-08-04 9:58 ` Chris Webb
2010-08-04 11:49 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-04 11:49 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-04 12:04 ` Chris Webb
2010-08-04 12:04 ` Chris Webb
2010-08-18 14:38 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-18 14:38 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-18 14:46 ` Chris Webb
2010-08-18 14:46 ` Chris Webb
2010-08-18 15:21 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-18 15:21 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-18 15:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-18 15:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-18 16:20 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-18 16:20 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-18 15:57 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2010-08-18 15:57 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2010-08-18 15:58 ` Chris Webb
2010-08-18 15:58 ` Chris Webb
2010-08-18 16:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-18 16:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-18 16:32 ` Chris Webb
2010-08-18 16:32 ` Chris Webb
2010-08-19 5:16 ` Balbir Singh
2010-08-19 5:16 ` Balbir Singh
2010-08-19 10:20 ` Chris Webb
2010-08-19 10:20 ` Chris Webb
2010-08-19 19:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-19 19:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-18 16:13 ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2010-08-18 16:13 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-18 16:31 ` Chris Webb
2010-08-18 16:31 ` Chris Webb
2010-08-19 5:13 ` Balbir Singh
2010-08-19 5:13 ` Balbir Singh
2010-08-18 16:45 ` Balbir Singh
2010-08-18 16:45 ` Balbir Singh
2010-08-19 9:25 ` Chris Webb
2010-08-19 9:25 ` Chris Webb
2010-08-19 15:13 ` Balbir Singh
2010-08-19 15:13 ` Balbir Singh
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-04-23 9:27 Richard Davies
2012-04-23 9:27 ` Richard Davies
2012-04-23 12:07 ` Zdenek Kaspar
2012-04-23 12:07 ` Zdenek Kaspar
2012-04-23 17:19 ` Dave Hansen
2012-04-23 17:19 ` Dave Hansen
2012-04-24 0:35 ` Minchan Kim
2012-04-24 0:35 ` Minchan Kim
2012-04-24 11:16 ` Peter Lieven
2012-04-24 11:16 ` Peter Lieven
2012-04-25 14:41 ` Rik van Riel
2012-04-25 14:41 ` Rik van Riel
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