On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 03:09:38PM +0800, Iram Shahzad wrote: > > The loop should be waiting for the _other_ processes (doing direct > > reclaims) to proceed. When there are _lots of_ ongoing page > > allocations/reclaims, it makes sense to wait for them to calm down a bit? > > I have noticed that if I run other process, it helps the loop to exit. > So is this (ie hanging until other process helps) intended behaviour? > > Also, the other process does help the loop to exit, but again it enters > the loop and the compaction is never finished. That is, the process > looks like hanging. Is this intended behaviour? > What will improve this situation? What's your /proc/vmstat? Does your system have thousands of processes allocating memory concurrently? I'd like to make sure the too_many_isolated() test is working as expected.. Thanks, Fengguang -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>