On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:38:52PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 01:18:21AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:28:42PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > Note how preventing kswapd reclaiming dirty pages pushes up its CPU <snip> > > > usage as it scans more pages but it does not get excessive due to > > > the throttling. > > > > Good to hear. > > The concern of this patchset was early OOM kill with too many scanning. > > I can throw such concern out from now on. > > > > At least, I haven't been able to trigger a premature OOM. AFAIR, Andrew had a premature OOM problem[1] but I couldn't track down at that time. I think this patch series might solve his problem. Although it doesn't, it should not accelerate his problem, at least. Andrew, Could you test this patchset? [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/25/415 -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
