On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 03:09:14PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > That might be necessary when the machine is overloaded. As a > starting point the following should retry the migrate a number of times > until success. The retry is checked on every fault but should not fire > more than once every 100ms. Yeah, something like that might work. But getting a working imbalance bound is important. The current very weak direct migration is the only thing that keeps the system from massively skewing load. -- 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/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>