From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f199.google.com (mail-pf0-f199.google.com [209.85.192.199]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 964766B02C4 for ; Tue, 16 May 2017 21:27:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pf0-f199.google.com with SMTP id l73so81366436pfj.8 for ; Tue, 16 May 2017 18:27:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net. [150.101.137.129]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id b78si523836pfe.220.2017.05.16.18.27.50 for ; Tue, 16 May 2017 18:27:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: 8 Gigabytes and constantly swapping References: <171e8fa1-3f14-dc18-09b5-48399b250a30@internode.on.net> <20170515080945.GA6062@dhcp22.suse.cz> From: Arthur Marsh Message-ID: Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 10:57:47 +0930 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170515080945.GA6062@dhcp22.suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michal Hocko Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Michal Hocko wrote on 15/05/17 17:39: > Is this 32b or 64b kernel? Could you take /proc/vmstat snapshots ever > second while the kswapd is active? > This was with a 64 bit kernel. Thankfully the problem does not seem to affect 4.12.0-rc1 and later kernels, with the amount of swap used and amount of time spent waiting on kswapd not being a problem even under heavy load. Arthur. -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org