Re: [RFC][PATCH] memcg soft limit (yet another new design) v1

[Balbir Singh]

* KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2009-03-31 08:55:38]:

> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:57:47 +0530
> Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > * Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2009-03-28 23:41:00]:
> > 
> > > * KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2009-03-27 13:59:33]:
> > > 
> > > > ==brief test result==
> > > > On 2CPU/1.6GB bytes machine. create group A and B
> > > >   A.  soft limit=300M
> > > >   B.  no soft limit
> > > > 
> > > >   Run a malloc() program on B and allcoate 1G of memory. The program just
> > > >   sleeps after allocating memory and no memory refernce after it.
> > > >   Run make -j 6 and compile the kernel.
> > > > 
> > > >   When vm.swappiness = 60  => 60MB of memory are swapped out from B.
> > > >   When vm.swappiness = 10  => 1MB of memory are swapped out from B    
> > > > 
> > > >   If no soft limit, 350MB of swap out will happen from B.(swapiness=60)
> > > >
> > > 
> > > I ran the same tests, booted the machine with mem=1700M and maxcpus=2
> > > 
> > > Here is what I see with
> > 
> > I meant to say, Here is what I see with my patches (v7)
> > 
> Hmm, I saw 250MB of swap out ;) As I reported before.

Swapout for A? For A it is expected, but for B it is not. How many
nodes do you have on your machine? Any fake numa nodes?

-- 
	Balbir
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