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From: "Rob Mueller" <robm@fastmail.fm>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend^2] mm: increase RECLAIM_DISTANCE to 30
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:26:50 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <90769A9DD8A14AE8A5A08BAC24B1245F@jem> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1104121659510.10966@chino.kir.corp.google.com>


>> Recently, Robert Mueller reported zone_reclaim_mode doesn't work
>> properly on his new NUMA server (Dual Xeon E5520 + Intel S5520UR MB).
>> He is using Cyrus IMAPd and it's built on a very traditional
>> single-process model.
>>
>
> Let's add Robert to the cc to see if this is still an issue, it hasn't
> been re-reported in over six months.

We definitely still set this in /etc/sysctl.conf on every imap server 
machine:

vm.zone_reclaim_mode = 0

I believe it still defaults to 1 otherwise. What I haven't tested is if 
leaving it at 1 still causes problems. It definitely DID previously cause 
big problems (I think that was around 2.6.34 or so).

http://blog.fastmail.fm/2010/09/15/default-zone_reclaim_mode-1-on-numa-kernel-is-bad-for-fileemailweb-servers/

I'll try changing it to 1 on a machine for 4 hours, see if it makes a 
noticeable difference and report back.

Rob

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      reply	other threads:[~2011-04-13  0:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-11  8:19 KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-11 21:19 ` Andrew Morton
2011-04-12  0:59   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-11 21:29 ` Dave Hansen
2011-04-12  1:01   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-12  2:27     ` Dave Hansen
2011-04-12  7:25       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-05-24 20:07       ` Andrew Morton
2011-05-24 20:24         ` David Rientjes
2011-05-24 20:37         ` Dave Hansen
2011-04-13  0:22   ` David Rientjes
2011-04-13  0:49     ` Dave Hansen
2011-04-13  0:56       ` David Rientjes
2011-04-13  0:16 ` David Rientjes
2011-04-13  0:26   ` Rob Mueller [this message]

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