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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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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-09 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <201202041109.53003.toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
     [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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