Re: Very aggressive memory reclaim

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Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> First it would be useful to determine why the VM is reclaiming so
> much memory. If it is somewhat predictable when the excessive
> reclaim is going to happen, it might be worth capturing an event

Often it's to get pages of a higher order. Just tracing alloc_pages
should tell you that.

There are a few other cases (like memory failure handling), but they're
more obscure.

-Andi
-- 
ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only

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