From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
Cc: "Hillf Danton" <dhillf@gmail.com>,
"Toralf Förster" <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: swap storm since kernel 3.2.x
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:06:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F33D2F1.5000606@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120209135407.GA15492@sig21.net>
On 02/09/2012 08:54 AM, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:21:55PM +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
>> it looks good. Neither do I get the huge debug_objects_cache
>> nor does it swap, after running a crosstool-ng toolchain build.
>> Well, last time I also had one kvm -m 1G instance running. I'll
>> try if that triggers the issue. So far:
>
> The kvm produced a bunch of page allocation failures
> on the host:
> (repeats a few times)
>
> I guess that is expected with your patch?
That is indeed why my patch series was significantly larger
than Hillf's little test patch :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-09 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <20120204133331.GA13223@sig21.net>
[not found] ` <201202041536.52189.toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
2012-02-05 4:45 ` Hillf Danton
2012-02-05 10:07 ` Toralf Förster
2012-02-05 11:38 ` Hillf Danton
2012-02-08 8:56 ` Toralf Förster
2012-02-08 11:52 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-02-08 12:34 ` Hillf Danton
2012-02-09 11:36 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-02-09 12:02 ` Hillf Danton
2012-02-09 13:21 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-02-09 13:54 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-02-09 14:06 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2012-02-10 12:36 ` Hillf Danton
2012-02-09 13:04 ` Toralf Förster
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