From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: difficult to pinpoint exhaustion of swap between 4.2.0-rc6 and 4.2.0-rc7
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 13:48:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55D71021.7030803@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55D70D80.5060009@suse.cz>
On 08/21/2015 01:37 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>
> That, said, looking at the memory values:
>
> rc6: Free+Buffers+A/I(Anon)+A/I(File)+Slab = 6769MB
> rc7: ... = 4714MB
>
> That's 2GB unaccounted for.
So one brute-force way to see who allocated those 2GB is to use the
page_owner debug feature. You need to enable CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER and then
follow the Usage part of Documentation/vm/page_owner.txt
If you can do that, please send the sorted_page_owner.txt for rc7 when
it's semi-nearing the exhausted swap. Then you could start doing a
comparison run with rc6, but maybe it will be easy to figure from the
rc7 log already. Thanks.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-21 11:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-19 15:44 difficult to pinpoint exhaustion of swap between 4.2.0-rc6 and 4.2.0-rc7 Arthur Marsh
2015-08-20 8:16 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-08-21 9:17 ` Arthur Marsh
2015-08-21 11:37 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-08-21 11:48 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2015-08-21 12:43 ` Arthur Marsh
2015-08-22 4:48 ` Arthur Marsh
2015-08-22 7:05 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-08-21 12:38 ` Arthur Marsh
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