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From: Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>
To: Bulent Abali <abali@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Derek Glidden <dglidden@illusionary.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 17:38:39 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106071641020.332-100000@mikeg.weiden.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF75B67BC7.4C70DAF5-ON85256A64.004C4AD1@pok.ibm.com>

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Bulent Abali wrote:

> I happened to saw this one with debugger attached serial port.
> The system was alive.  I think I was watching the free page count and
> it was decreasing very slowly may be couple pages per second.  Bigger
> the swap usage longer it takes to do swapoff.  For example, if I had
> 1GB in the swap space then it would take may be an half hour to shutdown...

I took a ~300ms ktrace snapshot of the no IO spot with 2.4.4.ikd..

  % TOTAL    TOTAL USECS    AVG/CALL   NCALLS
  0.0693%         208.54        0.40      517 c012d4b9 __free_pages
  0.0755%         227.34        1.01      224 c012cb67 __free_pages_ok
  ...
 34.7195%      104515.15        0.95   110049 c012de73 unuse_vma
 53.3435%      160578.37      303.55      529 c012dd38 __swap_free
Total entries: 131051  Total usecs:    301026.93 Idle: 0.00%

Andrew Morton could be right about that loop not being wonderful.

	-Mike

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-07 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-07 14:22 Bulent Abali
2001-06-07 15:38 ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
     [not found] <3B1E4CD0.D16F58A8@illusionary.com>
     [not found] ` <3b204fe5.4014698@mail.mbay.net>
     [not found]   ` <3B1E5316.F4B10172@illusionary.com>
     [not found]     ` <m1wv6p5uqp.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
     [not found]       ` <3B1E7ABA.EECCBFE0@illusionary.com>
2001-06-06 18:52         ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-06-06 19:06           ` Mike Galbraith
2001-06-06 19:28             ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-06-07  4:32               ` Mike Galbraith
2001-06-07  6:38                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-06-07  7:28                   ` Mike Galbraith
2001-06-07  7:59                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-06-07  8:15                       ` Mike Galbraith
2001-06-07 17:10                 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-06 19:28           ` Derek Glidden
2001-06-09  7:55           ` Rik van Riel

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