From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DB788D0040 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:33:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: by wyf19 with SMTP id 19so4529616wyf.14 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:33:32 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110329115546.C08C.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <20110328215344.GC3008@dastard> <20110329115546.C08C.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:33:32 +0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Very aggressive memory reclaim From: John Lepikhin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Minchan Kim , Dave Chinner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-mm@kvack.org 2011/3/29 KOSAKI Motohiro : > If my remember is correct, 2.6.38 is included Mel's anti agressive > reclaim patch. And original report seems to be using 2.6.37.x. > > John, can you try 2.6.38? I'll ask my boss about it. Unfortunately we found opposite issue with memory management + XFS (100M of inodes) on 2.6.38: some objects in xfs_inode and dentry slabs are seems to be never cleared (at least without "sync && echo 2 >.../drop_caches"). But this is not a production machine working 24x7, so we don't care about it right now. -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org