On Thu, 12 May 2011, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 18:55 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 10:43 -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > > However, since you admit even you see problems, let's concentrate on > > > fixing them rather than recriminations? > > > > Yes, please. So does dropping max_order to 1 help? > > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER is set to 3 in 2.6.39-rc7. > > Just booting with max_slab_order=1 (and none of the other patches > applied) I can still get the machine to go into kswapd at 99%, so it > doesn't seem to make much of a difference. slub_max_order=1 right? Not max_slab_order. -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>