From: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
To: "Toralf Förster" <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: swap storm since kernel 3.2.x
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:45:40 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJd=RBC-aceg6JUzGEfD3hcwv+0yd2M_N9kpS0v-JDMMKFaj_Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201202041536.52189.toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
2012/2/4 Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>:
>
> Johannes Stezenbach wrote at 14:33:31
>> On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 11:09:52AM +0100, Toralf Förster wrote:
>> > Within the last few weeks I'm observing sometimes a swap storm at my
>> > ThinkPad while compiling/installing new packages at my Gentoo Linux -
>> > the load is often something like :
>> >
>> > Load avg: 13.6, 20.6, 20.9
>> >
>> > I'm wondering whether this is related to kernel 3.2.x /Gentoo specific or
>> > related to my system only.
>>
>> Do you happen to have CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS enabled? For me it
>> ate lots of memory with 3.2.2, easily visible in slabtop.
>>
>>
>> Johannes
>
> No, I've these settings :
>
> tfoerste@n22 ~ $ zgrep -e OBJ -e SLAB -e SLUB /proc/config.gz | grep -v '#'
> CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y
> CONFIG_SLUB=y
> CONFIG_SLABINFO=y
>
Would you please try the patchset of Rik?
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/26/374
Good weekend
Hillf
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2012-02-05 4:45 ` Hillf Danton [this message]
2012-02-05 10:07 ` Toralf Förster
2012-02-05 11:38 ` Hillf Danton
2012-02-08 8:56 ` Toralf Förster
2012-02-08 11:52 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-02-08 12:34 ` Hillf Danton
2012-02-09 11:36 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-02-09 12:02 ` Hillf Danton
2012-02-09 13:21 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-02-09 13:54 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-02-09 14:06 ` Rik van Riel
2012-02-10 12:36 ` Hillf Danton
2012-02-09 13:04 ` Toralf Förster
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