From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Too much free memory (not used for FS cache)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:19:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120315131913.657d4f3d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F624C88.6050503@suse.cz>
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:09:44 +0100
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> wrote:
> since today's -next (20120315), the MM/VFS system is very sluggish.
> Especially when committing, diffing and similar with git. I still have
> 2G of 6G of memory free. But with each commit I have to wait for git to
> fetch all data from disk.
>
> I'm using ext4 on a raid for the partition with git kernel repository if
> that matters.
>
> Any idea what that could be?
The last mm->next update was March 5th so it won't be from stuff in the
-mm queue.
Are you sure it's reclaim-related? Perhaps something in the IO system
got slow?
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Too much free memory (not used for FS cache)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:19:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120315131913.657d4f3d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F624C88.6050503@suse.cz>
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:09:44 +0100
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> wrote:
> since today's -next (20120315), the MM/VFS system is very sluggish.
> Especially when committing, diffing and similar with git. I still have
> 2G of 6G of memory free. But with each commit I have to wait for git to
> fetch all data from disk.
>
> I'm using ext4 on a raid for the partition with git kernel repository if
> that matters.
>
> Any idea what that could be?
The last mm->next update was March 5th so it won't be from stuff in the
-mm queue.
Are you sure it's reclaim-related? Perhaps something in the IO system
got slow?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-15 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-15 20:09 Too much free memory (not used for FS cache) Jiri Slaby
2012-03-15 20:15 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-03-15 20:15 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-03-15 20:19 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-03-15 20:19 ` Andrew Morton
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