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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rob Mueller <robm@fastmail.fm>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Default zone_reclaim_mode = 1 on NUMA kernel is bad forfile/email/web servers
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:14:13 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1009210911270.1271@router.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100921090407.GA11439@csn.ul.ie>

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Mel Gorman wrote:

> > However there's still another question, why is this problem happening at
> > all for us? I know almost nothing about NUMA, but from other posts, it
> > sounds like the problem is the memory allocations are all happening on
> > one node?
>
> Yes.

This could be a screwy hardware issue as pointed out before. Certain
controllers restrict the memory that I/O can be done to also (32 bit
controller only able to do I/O to lower 2G?, controller on a PCI bus that
is local only to a particular node) which would make balancing
the file cache difficult.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-21 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2010-09-16 10:01 ` Default zone_reclaim_mode = 1 on NUMA kernel is bad for file/email/web servers KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-16 17:06   ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-17  0:50     ` Robert Mueller
2010-09-17  6:01       ` Shaohua Li
2010-09-17  7:32         ` Robert Mueller
2010-09-17 13:56           ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-17 14:09             ` Bron Gondwana
2010-09-17 14:22               ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-17 23:01                 ` Bron Gondwana
2010-09-20  9:34   ` Mel Gorman
2010-09-20 23:41     ` Default zone_reclaim_mode = 1 on NUMA kernel is bad forfile/email/web servers Rob Mueller
2010-09-21  9:04       ` Mel Gorman
2010-09-21 14:14         ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2010-09-22  3:44           ` Rob Mueller
2010-09-27  2:01         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-27 13:53           ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-27 23:17             ` Robert Mueller
2010-09-28 12:35               ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-28 12:42                 ` Bron Gondwana
2010-09-28 12:49                   ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-30  7:05             ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-04 12:45             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-04 13:07               ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-05  5:32                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-04 19:43               ` David Rientjes
2010-09-21  1:05   ` Default zone_reclaim_mode = 1 on NUMA kernel is bad for file/email/web servers KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-09-27  2:04     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-27  2:06       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-09-23 11:44   ` Balbir Singh
2010-09-30  8:38   ` Bron Gondwana

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