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SubjectRe: swapping when there's a free memory
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:33:33 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> 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?
>
And please /proc/buddyinfo and /proc/zoneinfo when the system is swappy.

Thanks,
-Kame

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