From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sd0109e.au.ibm.com (d23rh905.au.ibm.com [202.81.18.225]) by ausmtp04.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4I4RarB210084 for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 14:27:36 +1000 Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (d23av03.au.ibm.com [9.190.250.244]) by sd0109e.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.3) with ESMTP id l4I4AxM3163372 for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 14:11:00 +1000 Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av03.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l4I47R0L027587 for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 14:07:28 +1000 Message-ID: <464D267A.50107@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 09:37:22 +0530 From: Balbir Singh Reply-To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: RSS controller v2 Test results (lmbench ) References: <464C95D4.7070806@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <464D1599.1000506@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <464D1599.1000506@redhat.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------090506080404050703080701" Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Pavel Emelianov , Paul Menage , Kirill Korotaev , devel@openvz.org, Linux Containers , linux kernel mailing list , Linux Memory Management List , Vaidyanathan Srinivasan , Andrew Morton , "Eric W. Biederman" , Herbert Poetzl List-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090506080404050703080701 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rik van Riel wrote: > Balbir Singh wrote: > >> A meaningful container size does not hamper performance. I am in the >> process >> of getting more results (with varying container sizes). Please let me >> know >> what you think of the results? Would you like to see different >> benchmarks/ >> tests/configuration results? > > AIM7 results might be interesting, especially when run to crossover. > I'll try and get hold of AIM7, I have some AIM9 results (please see the attachment, since the results overflow 80 columns, I've attached them). > OTOH, AIM7 can make the current VM explode spectacularly :) > > I saw it swap out 1.4GB of memory in one run, on my 2GB memory test > system. That's right, it swapped out almost 75% of memory. > This would make a good test case for the RSS and the unmapped page cache controller. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. > Presumably all the AIM7 processes got stuck in the pageout code > simultaneously and all decided they needed to swap some pages out. > However, the shell got stuck too so I could not get sysrq output > on time. > oops! I wonder if AIM7 creates too many processes and exhausts all memory. I've seen a case where during an upgrade of my tetex on my laptop, the setup process failed and continued to fork processes filling up 4GB of swap. > I am trying out a little VM patch to fix that now, carefully watching > vmstat output. 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