On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:09:44 +0100 Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? The last mm->next update was March 5th so it won't be from stuff in the -mm queue. Are you sure it's reclaim-related? Perhaps something in the IO system got slow? -- 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>