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From: "krautus@kr916.org" <krautus@kr916.org>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Johannes Truschnigg <johannes.truschnigg@geizhals.at>
Subject: Re: all your slabs are belong to ram ?
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 20:34:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151006203449.065d26f3@linux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb3a907a5224885d97b47c86a9293545.squirrel@mail.geizhals.at>

Thank you very much, will do!
(and report back the results)

Regards and thanks for supporting,
Mike


On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 18:16:46 +0200
"Johannes Truschnigg" <johannes.truschnigg@geizhals.at> wrote:

> Am Di, 6.10.2015, 16:50 schrieb Darrick J. Wong:
> > On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 04:24:43PM +0200, krautus@kr916.org wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> So I'm asking you:
> >> 1. is there a way to force dentries and inodes to stay in ram ?
> >> 2. can I perhaps move dentries and inodes to a dedicated SSD ?
> >>
> >> I'm open to all possibilities, perhaps increase RAM ?
> >> Upgrade to Debian Jessie and 64 bit ?
> >
> > ISTR that kernel data such as slabs cannot live in highmem, which means
> > that
> > dentries and slab cannot live in highmem.  A 32bit kernel sets up ~900M of
> > low
> > memory and ~15G of highmem, which is probably why the kernel has to evict
> > things and why you see such problems.
> >
> > A 64bit kernel sets up all the memory as lowmem, so the kernel can use all
> > the
> > memory for stuff like that.  I'd give that a try first.
> 
> A few years back, we solved pretty much that exact same problem by
> switching the kernel to amd64, with all of userspace remaining i386. You
> should definitely try this.
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2015-10-06 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-06 14:24 all your slabs are belong to ram ? krautus
2015-10-06 14:50 ` Darrick J. Wong
2015-10-06 16:16   ` Johannes Truschnigg
2015-10-06 18:34     ` krautus [this message]

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