From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx148.postini.com [74.125.245.148]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10E046B005D for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 07:06:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 13:06:10 +0100 From: Zlatko Calusic MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20121128145215.d23aeb1b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20121128235412.GW8218@suse.de> <50B77F84.1030907@leemhuis.info> <20121129170512.GI2301@cmpxchg.org> <50B8A8E7.4030108@leemhuis.info> <20121201004520.GK2301@cmpxchg.org> <50BC6314.7060106@leemhuis.info> <20121203194208.GZ24381@cmpxchg.org> <20121204214210.GB20253@cmpxchg.org> <20121205030133.GA17438@wolff.to> <20121206173742.GA27297@wolff.to> In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <50C32D32.6040800@iskon.hr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: kswapd craziness in 3.7 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Johannes Weiner , linux-mm , Linux Kernel Mailing List On 06.12.2012 20:31, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok, people seem to be reporting success. > > I've applied Johannes' last patch with the new tested-by tags. > I've been testing this patch since it was applied, and it certainly fixes the kswapd craziness issue, good work Johannes! But, it's still not perfect yet, because I see that the system keeps lots of memory unused (free), where it previously used it all for the page cache (there's enough fs activity to warrant it). I'm now testing the last piece of Johannes' changes (still not in git tree), and can report results in 24-48 hours. Regards, -- Zlatko -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932967Ab2LHMGR (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2012 07:06:17 -0500 Received: from mxout2.iskon.hr ([213.191.128.81]:45662 "EHLO mxout2.iskon.hr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932073Ab2LHMGP (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2012 07:06:15 -0500 X-Remote-IP: 213.191.128.133 Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 13:06:10 +0100 From: Zlatko Calusic Organization: Iskon Internet d.d. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Icedove/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Johannes Weiner , linux-mm , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20121128145215.d23aeb1b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20121128235412.GW8218@suse.de> <50B77F84.1030907@leemhuis.info> <20121129170512.GI2301@cmpxchg.org> <50B8A8E7.4030108@leemhuis.info> <20121201004520.GK2301@cmpxchg.org> <50BC6314.7060106@leemhuis.info> <20121203194208.GZ24381@cmpxchg.org> <20121204214210.GB20253@cmpxchg.org> <20121205030133.GA17438@wolff.to> <20121206173742.GA27297@wolff.to> In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <50C32D32.6040800@iskon.hr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: kswapd craziness in 3.7 X-Anti-Virus: Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Linux Mail Server 5.6.45/RELEASE, bases: 20121208 #8651561, check: 20121208 clean X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: zlatko.calusic@iskon.hr X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 40023 [Dec 08 2012] X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 0 X-SpamTest-SPF: none X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0284], KAS30/Release Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06.12.2012 20:31, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok, people seem to be reporting success. > > I've applied Johannes' last patch with the new tested-by tags. > I've been testing this patch since it was applied, and it certainly fixes the kswapd craziness issue, good work Johannes! But, it's still not perfect yet, because I see that the system keeps lots of memory unused (free), where it previously used it all for the page cache (there's enough fs activity to warrant it). I'm now testing the last piece of Johannes' changes (still not in git tree), and can report results in 24-48 hours. Regards, -- Zlatko