From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Richard Davies <richard@arachsys.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>,
Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Subject: Re: Over-eager swapping
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:41:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F980D32.8020309@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120423092730.GB20543@alpha.arachsys.com>
On 04/23/2012 05:27 AM, Richard Davies wrote:
> The rrd graphs at http://imgur.com/a/Fklxr show a typical incident.
>
> We estimate memory used from /proc/meminfo as:
>
> = MemTotal - MemFree - Buffers + SwapTotal - SwapFree
>
> The first rrd shows memory used increasing as a VM starts, but not getting
> near the 64GB of physical RAM.
>
> The second rrd shows the heavy swapping this VM start caused.
>
> The third rrd shows a multi-gigabyte jump in swap used = SwapTotal - SwapFree
>
> The fourth rrd shows the large load spike (from 1 to 15) caused by this swap
> storm.
These are exactly the kind of swap storms that led me
make the VM tweaks that got merged into 3.4-rc :)
See these commits:
fe2c2a106663130a5ab45cb0e3414b52df2fff0c
7be62de99adcab4449d416977b4274985c5fe023
aff622495c9a0b56148192e53bdec539f5e147f2
1480de0340a8d5f094b74d7c4b902456c9a06903
496b919b3bdd957d4b1727df79bfa3751bced1c1
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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Richard Davies <richard@arachsys.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>,
Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Subject: Re: Over-eager swapping
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:41:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F980D32.8020309@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120423092730.GB20543@alpha.arachsys.com>
On 04/23/2012 05:27 AM, Richard Davies wrote:
> The rrd graphs at http://imgur.com/a/Fklxr show a typical incident.
>
> We estimate memory used from /proc/meminfo as:
>
> = MemTotal - MemFree - Buffers + SwapTotal - SwapFree
>
> The first rrd shows memory used increasing as a VM starts, but not getting
> near the 64GB of physical RAM.
>
> The second rrd shows the heavy swapping this VM start caused.
>
> The third rrd shows a multi-gigabyte jump in swap used = SwapTotal - SwapFree
>
> The fourth rrd shows the large load spike (from 1 to 15) caused by this swap
> storm.
These are exactly the kind of swap storms that led me
make the VM tweaks that got merged into 3.4-rc :)
See these commits:
fe2c2a106663130a5ab45cb0e3414b52df2fff0c
7be62de99adcab4449d416977b4274985c5fe023
aff622495c9a0b56148192e53bdec539f5e147f2
1480de0340a8d5f094b74d7c4b902456c9a06903
496b919b3bdd957d4b1727df79bfa3751bced1c1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-25 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-23 9:27 Over-eager swapping 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 [this message]
2012-04-25 14:41 ` Rik van Riel
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2010-08-02 12:47 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
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
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