On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 09:30:09AM -0700, Ivan Babrou wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 11:26 AM Ivan Babrou <ivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm making an internal build and will push it to some location to see > > how it behaves, but it might take a few days to get any sort of > > confidence in the results (unless it breaks immediately). > > > > I've also pushed my patch that disables SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO to a few > > locations yesterday to see how it fares. > > I have some updates before the weekend. There are two experimental groups: > > * My patch that removes the SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO flag. There are 704 > machines in this group across 5 datacenters with cumulative uptime of > 916 days. > * Minchan's patch to remove swap_slot_free_notify. There are 376 > machines in this group across 3 datacenters with cumulative uptime of > 240 days. > > Our machines take a couple of hours to start swapping anything after > boot, and I discounted these two hours from the cumulative uptime. > > Neither of these two groups experienced unexpected coredumps or > rocksdb corruptions. > > I think at this point it's reasonable to proceed with Minchan's patch > (including a backport). Let me cook the patch and then will post it. Thanks for the testing as well as reporting, Ivan!