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From: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Pádraig Brady" <P@draigbrady.com>,
	"James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	"Colin King" <colin.king@canonical.com>,
	"Minchan Kim" <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	"Rik van Riel" <riel@redhat.com>,
	"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Stop kswapd consuming 100% CPU when highest zone is small
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:23:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTintLEcJvNzzspYRUV8fCx9=9dGDnA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1308926697-22475-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de>

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> wrote:
> (Built this time and passed a basic sniff-test.)
>
> During allocator-intensive workloads, kswapd will be woken frequently
> causing free memory to oscillate between the high and min watermark.
> This is expected behaviour.  Unfortunately, if the highest zone is
> small, a problem occurs.
>

[...]

I've been running these for a couple days with no problems, although I
haven't been trying to reproduce the problem.  (Well, no problems
related to memory management.)

I suspect that my pet unnecessary-OOM-kill bug is still around, but
that's probably not related, especially since I can trigger it if I
stick 8 GB of RAM in this laptop.

Thanks,
Andy

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-25 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-24 14:44 [PATCH 0/4] Stop kswapd consuming 100% CPU when highest zone is small Mel Gorman
2011-06-24 14:44 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm: vmscan: Correct check for kswapd sleeping in sleeping_prematurely Mel Gorman
2011-06-25 21:33   ` Rik van Riel
2011-06-27  6:10   ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-28 21:49   ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-29 10:57     ` Pádraig Brady
2011-06-30  9:39     ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-30  2:23   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-06-24 14:44 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm: vmscan: Do not apply pressure to slab if we are not applying pressure to zone Mel Gorman
2011-06-25 21:40   ` Rik van Riel
2011-06-28 23:38   ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-30  2:37   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-06-24 14:44 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm: vmscan: Evaluate the watermarks against the correct classzone Mel Gorman
2011-06-25 21:42   ` Rik van Riel
2011-06-27  6:53   ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-28 12:52     ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-28 23:23       ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-28 23:23   ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-24 14:44 ` [PATCH 4/4] mm: vmscan: Only read new_classzone_idx from pgdat when reclaiming successfully Mel Gorman
2011-06-25 23:17   ` Rik van Riel
2011-06-30  9:05   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-06-30 10:19     ` Mel Gorman
2011-07-19 16:09   ` Minchan Kim
2011-07-20 10:48     ` Mel Gorman
2011-07-21 15:30       ` Minchan Kim
2011-07-21 16:07         ` Mel Gorman
2011-07-21 16:36           ` Minchan Kim
2011-07-21 17:01             ` Mel Gorman
2011-07-22  0:21               ` Minchan Kim
2011-07-22  7:42                 ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-25 14:23 ` Andrew Lutomirski [this message]
2011-07-21 15:37 ` [PATCH 0/4] Stop kswapd consuming 100% CPU when highest zone is small Minchan Kim
2011-07-21 16:09   ` Mel Gorman
2011-07-21 16:24     ` Minchan Kim
2011-07-21 16:36       ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-07-21 16:42         ` Minchan Kim
2011-07-21 16:58           ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-07-22  0:30             ` Minchan Kim
2011-07-22 13:21               ` Andrew Lutomirski
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-06-24 13:43 Mel Gorman

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