From: Frits Hoogland <frits.hoogland@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Linux choosing to swap despite having 250G of file memory available
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 14:49:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78A3C8B6-FCB5-480D-90B6-1675B1D89594@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Zg_v12WSnpU9l01r@casper.infradead.org>
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Thanks for your response. I do understand your reply, and what your point at.
The question really that I have is if there is logical scenario where this swapping scenario could happen.
All the documentation and what I see in the source suggests that in cases like this the file memory should be used.
Thank you,
Frits Hoogland
> On 5 Apr 2024, at 14:34, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 11:04:49AM +0200, Frits Hoogland wrote:
>> Operating system: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9
>> Kernel: 4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9.x86_64 #1 SMP
>
> 4.18 was released in 2018. I know Red Hat still supports it, but really
> that's up to them. You need to engage with Red Hat product support,
> not upstream. We don't know what changes Red Hat have made to it that
> may influence swapping behaviour.
>
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