From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx173.postini.com [74.125.245.173]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 694A46B0072 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:14:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:13:15 -0600 From: Bruno Wolff III Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD" Message-ID: <20121120161315.GA8338@wolff.to> References: <5093A631.5020209@suse.cz> <509422C3.1000803@suse.cz> <509C84ED.8090605@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <509CB9D1.6060704@redhat.com> <20121109090635.GG8218@suse.de> <509F6C2A.9060502@redhat.com> <20121112113731.GS8218@suse.de> <20121116200616.GK8218@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Josh Boyer Cc: Mel Gorman , Zdenek Kabelac , Seth Jennings , Jiri Slaby , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Jiri Slaby , linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML , Andrew Morton , Rik van Riel , Robert Jennings , Thorsten Leemhuis On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:38:45 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > >We've been tracking it in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=866988 >and people say this revert patch doesn't seem to make the issue go away >fully. Thorsten has created another kernel with the other patch applied >for testing. > >At least I think that is the latest status from the bug. Hopefully the >commenters will chime in. I am seeing kswapd0 hogging a cpu right now. I have two rsyncs and an md sync running and a couple of large memory processes (java and firefox) idle. I haven't been seeing this happen as often as previously. Before doing a yum update with an rsync was pretty good at triggering the problem. Now, not so much. -- 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