On 03/15/2012 09:09 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote: > Hi, > > since today's -next (20120315), the MM/VFS system is very sluggish. > Especially when committing, diffing and similar with git. I still have > 2G of 6G of memory free. But with each commit I have to wait for git to > fetch all data from disk. > > I'm using ext4 on a raid for the partition with git kernel repository if > that matters. > > Any idea what that could be? Please ignore this. It's not as easy as that. It doesn't wait for IO and needs more investigation... > nr_free_pages 555469 > nr_inactive_anon 16787 > nr_active_anon 414439 > nr_inactive_file 315585 > nr_active_file 137446 > nr_unevictable 0 > nr_mlock 0 > nr_anon_pages 277729 > nr_mapped 95971 > nr_file_pages 524644 > nr_dirty 11 > nr_writeback 0 > nr_slab_reclaimable 35548 > nr_slab_unreclaimable 7450 > nr_page_table_pages 11493 > nr_kernel_stack 464 > nr_unstable 0 > nr_bounce 0 > nr_vmscan_write 0 > nr_vmscan_immediate_reclaim 0 > nr_writeback_temp 0 > nr_isolated_anon 0 > nr_isolated_file 0 > nr_shmem 71614 > nr_dirtied 1165398 > nr_written 1147058 > nr_anon_transparent_hugepages 160 > nr_dirty_threshold 97608 > nr_dirty_background_threshold 48804 > pgpgin 2446144 > pgpgout 4844237 > pswpin 0 > pswpout 0 > pgalloc_dma 0 > pgalloc_dma32 21764611 > pgalloc_normal 38307626 > pgalloc_movable 0 > pgfree 60640227 > pgactivate 913299 > pgdeactivate 109336 > pgfault 51012433 > pgmajfault 8476 > pgrefill_dma 0 > pgrefill_dma32 79208 > pgrefill_normal 41244 > pgrefill_movable 0 > pgsteal_dma 0 > pgsteal_dma32 162966 > pgsteal_normal 185373 > pgsteal_movable 0 > pgscan_kswapd_dma 0 > pgscan_kswapd_dma32 162559 > pgscan_kswapd_normal 215360 > pgscan_kswapd_movable 0 > pgscan_direct_dma 0 > pgscan_direct_dma32 1624 > pgscan_direct_normal 3927 > pgscan_direct_movable 0 > pginodesteal 4 > slabs_scanned 102400 > kswapd_steal 342881 > kswapd_inodesteal 756 > kswapd_low_wmark_hit_quickly 0 > kswapd_high_wmark_hit_quickly 119 > kswapd_skip_congestion_wait 0 > pageoutrun 3493 > allocstall 5 > pgrotated 240 > compact_blocks_moved 432 > compact_pages_moved 10699 > compact_pagemigrate_failed 0 > compact_stall 14 > compact_fail 5 > compact_success 9 > htlb_buddy_alloc_success 0 > htlb_buddy_alloc_fail 0 > unevictable_pgs_culled 327 > unevictable_pgs_scanned 0 > unevictable_pgs_rescued 2618 > unevictable_pgs_mlocked 2618 > unevictable_pgs_munlocked 2618 > unevictable_pgs_cleared 0 > unevictable_pgs_stranded 0 > unevictable_pgs_mlockfreed 0 > thp_fault_alloc 13147 > thp_fault_fallback 0 > thp_collapse_alloc 3543 > thp_collapse_alloc_failed 0 > thp_split 183 > > thanks, -- js suse labs -- 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>