Re: [PATCH 01/10] mm: vmscan: Limit the number of pages kswapdreclaims at each priority

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Fri Mar 29 2013 - 04:23:07 EST


On Thu 28-03-13 23:31:18, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 03/25/2013 10:13 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > BTW I very pray this will fix also the issue I have when I run ltp tests
> > (highly I/O intensive, esp. `growfiles') in a VM while playing a movie
> > on the host resulting in a stuttered playback ;).
>
> No, this is still terrible. I was now updating a kernel in a VM and had
> problems to even move with cursor.

:/

> There was still 1.2G used by I/O cache.

Could you collect /proc/zoneinfo and /proc/vmstat (say in 1 or 2s
intervals)?
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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