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From: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
To: "Artem S. Tashkinov" <aros@gmx.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Let's talk about the elephant in the room - the Linux kernel'sinability to gracefully handle low memory pressure
Date: Tue,  6 Aug 2019 10:09:54 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190806020954.1356-1-hdanton@sina.com> (raw)


On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 20:01:58 +0800 "Artem S. Tashkinov" wrote:
>
> I'm running ext4 only without LVM, encryption or anything like that.
> Plain GPT/MBR partitions with plenty of free space and no disk errors.

Can you try to mount a swap partitaion, say near the size of your RAM,
with other things not changed, and see if any difference it makes?

Or a swap file if a free partitaion is unavailable.

Thanks
Hillf


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