From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: swap behavior during fast allocation
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 11:24:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51FFEDD6.7020906@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA25o9RO5+gYCTQuouNsJ5COTWdA+wbPUH--B-STSmySjTxBAQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 08/05/2013 11:04 AM, Luigi Semenzato wrote:
> We can reproduce this by running a few processes that mmap large
> chunks of memory, then randomly touch pages to fault them in. We also
> think this happens when a process writes a large amount of data using
> buffered I/O, and the "Buffers" field in /proc/meminfo exceeds 1GB.
> (This is something that can and should be corrected by using
> unbuffered I/O instead, but it's a data point.)
Where are all the buffers coming from? Most I/O to/from filesystems
should be instantiating relatively modest amounts of Buffers. Are you
doing I/O directly to devices for some reason?
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2013-08-05 18:04 Luigi Semenzato
2013-08-05 18:24 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2013-08-05 18:30 ` Luigi Semenzato
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