From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx128.postini.com [74.125.245.128]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 36DA26B006E for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2012 04:15:15 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-ee0-f41.google.com with SMTP id d41so2574546eek.14 for ; Tue, 04 Dec 2012 01:15:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50BDBF1D.60105@suse.cz> Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:15:09 +0100 From: Jiri Slaby MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: kswapd craziness in 3.7 References: <1354049315-12874-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> <20121128094511.GS8218@suse.de> <50BCC3E3.40804@redhat.com> <20121203191858.GY24381@cmpxchg.org> <50BDBCD9.9060509@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <50BDBCD9.9060509@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Johannes Weiner Cc: Zdenek Kabelac , Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , Rik van Riel , George Spelvin , Johannes Hirte , Thorsten Leemhuis , Tomas Racek , Jan Kara , Dave Hansen , Josh Boyer , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Bruno Wolff III , Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/04/2012 10:05 AM, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > Dne 3.12.2012 20:18, Johannes Weiner napsal(a): >> Szia Zdenek, >> >> On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 04:23:15PM +0100, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: >>> Ok, bad news - I've been hit by kswapd0 loop again - >>> my kernel git commit cc19528bd3084c3c2d870b31a3578da8c69952f3 again >>> shown kswapd0 for couple minutes on CPU. >>> >>> It seemed to go instantly away when I've drop caches >>> (echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_cache) >>> (After that I've had over 1G free memory) >> >> Any chance you could retry with this patch on top? It does not apply to -next :/. Should I try anything else? >> From: Johannes Weiner >> Subject: [patch] mm: vmscan: do not keep kswapd looping forever due >> to individual uncompactable zones ... > What seems to be triggering condition on my machine - running laptop for > some days - and having Thunderbird reaching 0.8G (I guess they must > keep all my news messages in memory to consume that size) and Firefox > 1.3GB of consumed > memory (assuming massive leaking with combination of flash) Similar here, 5 days of uptime (suspend/resumes in between). FF 900M, TB 250M, java 1.1G, kvm 550M, X 400M, cache 1.5G out of 6G total mem. And boom. thanks, -- js suse labs -- 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