On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Gladly, but not until Wednesday most likely. I'm defending my thesis on Monday :) --Andy -- 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>