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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: John Lepikhin <johnlepikhin@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeffrey Hundstad <jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org. Alexander Viro"
	<viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Very aggressive memory reclaim
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:48:05 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110330134804.GA10113@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikmQJFq633VNqNOMC-BfEC=BU=g7j5uW78P4B4Z@mail.gmail.com>

Hi John,

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:50:56PM +0400, John Lepikhin wrote:
> 2011/3/28 Jeffrey Hundstad <jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu>:
> 
> > I'd take a look here:
> > http://www.linuxinsight.com/proc_sys_vm_hierarchy.html
> 
> Yes, I already played with dirty_*, min_free_kbytes (3000kb),
> swappiness (0..100), vfs_cache_pressure (1..200) and zone_reclaim_mode
> (currently 0). Other parameters are set to defaults.
> 
> By the way, there is no swap enabled. Instead of just dropping 50% of
> page caches, kernel was intensively swapping then there was a swap
> device.

Is your memory usage balanced across the nodes? You can check it via
/sys/devices/system/node/node*/meminfo.

Are there lots of high-order memory allocations?  /proc/buddyinfo will
disclose some of them.

Thanks,
Fengguang

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-30 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <AANLkTinFqqmE+fTMTLVU-_CwPE+LQv7CpXSQ5+CdAKLK@mail.gmail.com>
2011-03-28 21:53 ` Very aggressive memory reclaim Dave Chinner
2011-03-28 22:52   ` Minchan Kim
2011-03-29  2:55     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-03-29  7:33       ` John Lepikhin
2011-03-29  7:22     ` John Lepikhin
2011-03-28 23:58   ` Andi Kleen
2011-03-29  1:57     ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-29  7:26   ` John Lepikhin
2011-03-29  8:59     ` Avi Kivity
     [not found] ` <4D90C071.7040205@mnsu.edu>
     [not found]   ` <AANLkTikmQJFq633VNqNOMC-BfEC=BU=g7j5uW78P4B4Z@mail.gmail.com>
2011-03-30 13:48     ` Wu Fengguang [this message]

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