From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ua0-f199.google.com (mail-ua0-f199.google.com [209.85.217.199]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C5C46B0038 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 05:20:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-ua0-f199.google.com with SMTP id 65so233423131uay.1 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 02:20:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k125si24727817wmg.9.2016.08.17.02.20.34 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 17 Aug 2016 02:20:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: OOM killer changes References: <20160801200926.GF31957@dhcp22.suse.cz> <3c022d92-9c96-9022-8496-aa8738fb7358@quantum.com> <20160801202616.GG31957@dhcp22.suse.cz> <27bd5116-f489-252c-f257-97be00786629@Quantum.com> <20160802071010.GB12403@dhcp22.suse.cz> <6cb37d4a-d2dd-6c2f-a65d-51474103bf86@Quantum.com> <20160816031222.GC16913@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE> <8db47fdf-2d6a-d234-479e-6cc81be98655@suse.cz> From: Vlastimil Babka Message-ID: <082f48bf-dacd-b65d-7e48-8c56b1a9f805@suse.cz> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 11:20:31 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Ralf-Peter Rohbeck , Joonsoo Kim Cc: Michal Hocko , "linux-mm@kvack.org" On 08/17/2016 11:11 AM, Ralf-Peter Rohbeck wrote: > On 17.08.2016 00:56, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> And I really wonder how did all those unmovable pageblocks happen. >> AFAICS zoneinfo shows that most of memory is occupied by file lru pages. >> These should be movable. > > Is it the pressure on the page cache? Don't forget that I write to some > disk drives (recently, 2) at media speed with dd if=/dev/zero bs=4M > of=/dev/SDX. Hmm page cache should be movable. But maybe it's different for writing to devices and not filesystems. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org