From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>,
Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@fem.tu-ilmenau.de>,
Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@leemhuis.info>,
Tomas Racek <tracek@redhat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kswapd craziness in 3.7
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:15:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50BDBF1D.60105@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50BDBCD9.9060509@redhat.com>
On 12/04/2012 10:05 AM, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> Dne 3.12.2012 20:18, Johannes Weiner napsal(a):
>> Szia Zdenek,
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 04:23:15PM +0100, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
>>> Ok, bad news - I've been hit by kswapd0 loop again -
>>> my kernel git commit cc19528bd3084c3c2d870b31a3578da8c69952f3 again
>>> shown kswapd0 for couple minutes on CPU.
>>>
>>> It seemed to go instantly away when I've drop caches
>>> (echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_cache)
>>> (After that I've had over 1G free memory)
>>
>> Any chance you could retry with this patch on top?
It does not apply to -next :/. Should I try anything else?
>> From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
>> Subject: [patch] mm: vmscan: do not keep kswapd looping forever due
>> to individual uncompactable zones
...
> What seems to be triggering condition on my machine - running laptop for
> some days - and having Thunderbird reaching 0.8G (I guess they must
> keep all my news messages in memory to consume that size) and Firefox
> 1.3GB of consumed
> memory (assuming massive leaking with combination of flash)
Similar here, 5 days of uptime (suspend/resumes in between). FF 900M, TB
250M, java 1.1G, kvm 550M, X 400M, cache 1.5G out of 6G total mem. And boom.
thanks,
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suse labs
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Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-27 20:48 kswapd craziness in 3.7 Johannes Weiner
2012-11-27 20:48 ` [patch] mm: vmscan: fix kswapd endless loop on higher order allocation Johannes Weiner
2012-11-27 20:58 ` kswapd craziness in 3.7 Linus Torvalds
2012-11-27 21:16 ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-27 21:49 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-11-27 22:02 ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-27 22:26 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-11-27 23:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-11-28 10:13 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-28 10:51 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2012-11-28 16:42 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-28 22:52 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-28 23:54 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-29 0:14 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-29 15:30 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2012-11-29 17:05 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-11-30 12:39 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2012-12-01 0:45 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-12-03 8:30 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2012-12-03 13:08 ` Fedora repo (was: Re: kswapd craziness in 3.7) Borislav Petkov
2012-12-03 19:42 ` kswapd craziness in 3.7 Johannes Weiner
2012-12-04 21:42 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-12-05 3:01 ` Bruno Wolff III
2012-12-06 17:37 ` Bruno Wolff III
2012-12-06 19:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-06 19:43 ` Rik van Riel
2012-12-06 20:23 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-12-06 20:32 ` Rik van Riel
2012-12-08 12:06 ` Zlatko Calusic
2012-12-08 21:22 ` Zlatko Calusic
2012-12-09 1:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-09 21:59 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2012-12-10 11:03 ` Mel Gorman
2012-12-10 16:39 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-12-10 18:01 ` Mel Gorman
2012-12-10 18:33 ` Zlatko Calusic
2012-12-10 19:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-10 20:35 ` Zlatko Calusic
2012-12-10 21:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-10 21:42 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-10 21:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-10 21:54 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-10 22:15 ` Zlatko Calusic
2012-12-10 23:27 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-12-11 0:19 ` Zlatko Calusic
2012-12-11 21:56 ` Zlatko Calusic
2012-12-19 22:24 ` Zlatko Calusic
2012-12-10 18:29 ` Zlatko Calusic
2012-12-06 8:09 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2012-11-27 21:29 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-11-28 13:35 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2012-11-28 14:04 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-11-28 9:45 ` Mel Gorman
2012-12-03 15:23 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2012-12-03 19:18 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-12-04 9:05 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2012-12-04 9:15 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2012-12-04 16:11 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-12-04 16:22 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-12-04 19:50 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-12-08 10:35 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-12-04 16:15 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-12-06 13:51 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2012-12-03 13:14 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-12-04 8:55 ` Jiri Slaby
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