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From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Cc: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH 1/2] swapon01: Test on all filesystems
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:53:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZaqM5o2u6huhz3j7@yuki> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240119143329.GA8075@pevik>

Hi!
> > > For the previous iteration of this patch Li wasn't sure if this adds
> > > enough value since there isn't ton of filesystem specific code involved
> > > unless we actually start writing to the swapfile.
> 
> I wonder how to force. We could setup
> 
> sysctl vm.swappiness=100
> 
> But how to consume enough RAM to be actually written?

One way is put the process into a cgroup with fairly small RAM limit and
then allocate and fault memory, getting this right is not that easy
though.

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-19 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-11 16:24 [LTP] [PATCH 0/2] swapon01: Test on all filesystems, cleanup Petr Vorel
2023-10-11 16:24 ` [LTP] [PATCH 1/2] swapon01: Test on all filesystems Petr Vorel
2024-01-19 11:42   ` Cyril Hrubis
2024-01-19 12:26     ` Li Wang
2024-01-19 14:33       ` Petr Vorel
2024-01-19 14:53         ` Cyril Hrubis [this message]
2023-10-11 16:24 ` [LTP] [PATCH 2/2] swapon01: Simplify code, add copyright Petr Vorel
2024-01-19 11:59   ` Cyril Hrubis
2024-01-19 13:36     ` Petr Vorel
2023-10-12  9:28 ` [LTP] [PATCH 0/2] swapon01: Test on all filesystems, cleanup Marius Kittler
2024-01-12  7:18   ` Li Wang

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