On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 08:54:48PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > full_scans is just a counter of how many times it has scanned mergable > > > memory so it should be increasing constantly. Whether pages_to_scan == > > > 1250 and sleep_millisecs == 20 is good for your system is unknown. You > > > may want to try disabling ksm entirely (echo 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run) > > > to see if it significantly increases responsiveness for your workload. > > > > You didn't happen to see any RCU CPU stalls, did you? nothing got reported in dmesg.. Dave -- 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>