"tell us why you want to disable CONFIG_COMPACTION" --> spikes from VMs?

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Hi,

In trying to debug an issue, I came across this text in the config
COMPACTION menu item:

> Compaction is the only memory management component to form
> high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks
> reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and
> the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer
> invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't
> disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for
> it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at
> linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx.

So, here I am as requested.

My system has 64 gigs of ram. Often times when starting up VMs, with
either QEMU/KVM or with VMware, the VM will be extremely sluggish and
laggy for a little while, usually around 5 minutes. During that phase,
I see kcompact0 using 100% CPU. But other times this doesn't happen at
all. I figured I'd try removing CONFIG_COMPACTION and seeing what
happens, but then I saw your admonishment, so here I am.

Has anybody else seen this behavior?

Jason




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