On Thu 05-01-17 11:42:33, Andrew Morton wrote: > > (switched to email. Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the > bugzilla web interface). > > On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 19:38:23 +0000 bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190191 > > > > Bug ID: 190191 > > Summary: kswapd0 spirals out of control > > Product: Memory Management > > Version: 2.5 > > Kernel Version: 4.8.0+ > > Hardware: i386 > > OS: Linux > > Tree: Mainline > > Status: NEW > > Severity: high > > Priority: P1 > > Component: Other > > Assignee: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Reporter: dh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Regression: No > > I'd say "Regression: yes". > > Additional details at the link. There's no indication which commit(s) > broke it. > > > Created attachment 247481 > > --> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=247481&action=edit > > config for 4.7 > > > > I'm currently running 4.7.10 with no problems, but when i tried to upgrade to > > 4.8.0 (and just now, 4.9.0) i encountered a problem that makes my system > > unusable. Considering this is 32b kernel and we know that node reclaim (introduced in 4.8) is broken with memcg enabled because Normal zone inactive list might not be aged properly I would suggest trying to run with http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104100825.3729-1-mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx applied. It is hard to tell anything more without further information though. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>