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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 3.4-rc4 oom killer out of control.
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:02:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120427020224.GA22927@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120427005448.GD23877@home.goodmis.org>

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 08:54:48PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
 
 > >  > full_scans is just a counter of how many times it has scanned mergable 
 > >  > memory so it should be increasing constantly.  Whether pages_to_scan == 
 > >  > 1250 and sleep_millisecs == 20 is good for your system is unknown.  You 
 > >  > may want to try disabling ksm entirely (echo 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run) 
 > >  > to see if it significantly increases responsiveness for your workload.
 > > 
 > 
 > You didn't happen to see any RCU CPU stalls, did you?

nothing got reported in dmesg..

	Dave

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-27  3:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-26 19:35 3.4-rc4 oom killer out of control Dave Jones
2012-04-26 20:53 ` Dave Jones
2012-04-26 22:30   ` David Rientjes
2012-04-26 21:40 ` David Rientjes
2012-04-26 21:52   ` Dave Jones
2012-04-26 22:20     ` David Rientjes
2012-04-26 22:44       ` Dave Jones
2012-04-26 22:49         ` David Rientjes
2012-04-26 22:54           ` Dave Jones
2012-04-27  0:54         ` Steven Rostedt
2012-04-27  2:02           ` Dave Jones [this message]
2012-05-03 22:14   ` David Rientjes
2012-05-03 22:29     ` Dave Jones
2012-05-17 21:33       ` [patch] mm, oom: normalize oom scores to oom_score_adj scale only for userspace David Rientjes
2012-05-17 21:50         ` Andrew Morton
2012-05-23  7:15           ` [patch v2] " David Rientjes
2012-05-23 22:37             ` Andrew Morton
2012-05-24  6:02               ` David Rientjes

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