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SubjectRe: Linux machines dieing in swap storms
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Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:20:41 +0100
> Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> wrote:

>> Advice on solving this welcome preferably in mainline but I'll happily
>> hack my kernels with a workaround if need be.
>
> I can't see any easy hacks or workarounds to fix the issue in the
> current MM, except maybe activate the OOM killer if the amount of
> page cache and buffer cache is really low and swap is full...
>
> In the longer run, I'm working on:
>
> http://linux-mm.org/PageReplacementDesign

What about only reclaimimn cache if the cache has grown beyond a watermark
and only reclaimimn non-cache if it's below another watermark? I can imagine
it will solve my diskcache-pushes-out-mousehandler problem, and I'm pretty
sure having very low file cache is bad for performance, too.

Another thing I can imagine is to detect thrashing conditions and to
change scheduling in order to increase the likehood of cache hits and
thereby progress: If an application just got a page, keep it running for
a while (accumulating negative credits).
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