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SubjectRe: swapping when there's a free memory
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:13:49 +0200
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > I captured this output of vmstat. The machine was freeing cache and
> > swapping out pages even when there was a plenty of free memory.
> >
> > The machine is sparc64 with 1GB RAM with 2.6.34-rc4. This abnormal
> > swapping happened during running spadfsck --- a fsck program for a custom
> > filesystem that caches most reads in its internal cache --- so it reads
> > buffers and allocates memory at the same time.
> >
> > Note that sparc64 doesn't have any low/high memory zones, so it couldn't
> > be explained by filling one zone and needing to allocate pages in it.
>
> Fragmented memory + high-order allocation?

Yeah, could be. I wonder which slab/slub/slob implementation you're
using, and what page sizes it uses for dentries, inodes, etc. Can you
have a poke in /prob/slabinfo?


> > This abnormal behavior doesn't happen everytime, it happend about twice
> > for many spadfsck attempts.
>
> ...yep, that would be random.



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