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SubjectRe: kswapd craziness in 3.7
Dne 4.12.2012 10:05, Zdenek Kabelac napsal(a):
> Dne 3.12.2012 20:18, Johannes Weiner napsal(a):
>> Szia Zdenek,
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 04:23:15PM +0100, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
>>> Ok, bad news - I've been hit by kswapd0 loop again -
>>> my kernel git commit cc19528bd3084c3c2d870b31a3578da8c69952f3 again
>>> shown kswapd0 for couple minutes on CPU.
>>>
>>> It seemed to go instantly away when I've drop caches
>>> (echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_cache)
>>> (After that I've had over 1G free memory)
>>
>> Any chance you could retry with this patch on top?
>>
>> ---
>> From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
>> Subject: [patch] mm: vmscan: do not keep kswapd looping forever due
>> to individual uncompactable zones
>>
>> ---
>> mm/vmscan.c | 16 ----------------
>> 1 file changed, 16 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
>
>
> Ok, I'm running now b69f0859dc8e633c5d8c06845811588fe17e68b3 (-rc8)
> with your patch. I'll be able to give some feedback after couple
> days (if I keep my machine running without reboot - since before

So to just give some positive info -

with 2 1/2 day uptime, several suspend/resumes, ff at 1.4GB
I still have just 29 seconds for kswapd0 process.

So the patch above might have helped - but I'll look for a few more days.

Zdenek


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