Sorry for missing Ccing. On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 06:48:16PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:38:52PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 01:18:21AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:28:42PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > > Note how preventing kswapd reclaiming dirty pages pushes up its CPU > > <snip> > > > > > usage as it scans more pages but it does not get excessive due to > > > > the throttling. > > > > > > Good to hear. > > > The concern of this patchset was early OOM kill with too many scanning. > > > I can throw such concern out from now on. > > > > > > > At least, I haven't been able to trigger a premature OOM. > > AFAIR, Andrew had a premature OOM problem[1] but I couldn't track down at that time. > I think this patch series might solve his problem. Although it doesn't, it should not accelerate > his problem, at least. > > Andrew, Could you test this patchset? > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/25/415 > -- > Kind regards, > Minchan Kim -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>