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DateMon, 15 Mar 2004 16:47:48 -0300 (BRT)
FromMarcelo Tosatti <>
SubjectRe: [lockup] Re: objrmap-core-1 (rmap removal for file mappings to avoid 4:4 in <=16G machines)

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> this doesn't lockup for me (in 2.6 + objrmap), but the machine is not
> responsive, while pushing 1G into swap. Here a trace in the middle of the
> swapping while pressing C^c on your program doesn't respond for half a minute.
> 
> Mind to leave it running a bit longer before claiming a lockup?
> 
>  1 206 615472   4032     84 879332 11248 16808 16324 16808 2618 20311  0 43  0 57
>  1 204 641740   1756     96 878476 2852 16980  4928 16980 5066 60228  0 35  1 64
>  1 205 650936   2508    100 875604 2248 9928  3772  9928 1364 21052  0 34  2 64
>  2 204 658212   2656    104 876904 3564 12052  4988 12052 2074 19647  0 32  1 67
>  1 204 674260   1628    104 878528 3236 12924  5608 12928 2062 27114  0 47  0 53
>  1 204 678248   1988     96 879004 3540 4664  4360  4664 1988 20728  0 31  0 69
>  1 203 683748   4024     96 878132 2844 5036  3724  5036 1513 18173  0 38  0 61
>  0 206 687312   1732    112 879056 3396 4260  4424  4272 1704 13222  0 32  0 68
>  1 204 690164   1936    116 880364 2844 3400  3496  3404 1422 18214  0 35  0 64
>  0 205 696572   4348    112 877676 2956 6620  3788  6620 1281 11544  0 37  1 62
>  0 204 699244   4168    108 878272 3140 3528  3892  3528 1467 11464  0 28  0 72
>  1 206 704296   1820    112 878604 2576 4980  3592  4980 1386 11710  0 26  0 74
>  1 205 710452   1972    104 876760 2256 6684  3092  6684 1308 20947  0 34  1 66
>  2 203 714512   1632    108 877564 2332 4876  3068  4876 1295  9792  0 20  0 80
>  0 204 719804   3720    112 878128 2536 6352  3100  6368 1441 20714  0 39  0 61
> 124 200 724708   1636    100 879548 3376 5308  3912  5308 1516 20732  0 38  0 62
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
>  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
>  1 204 730908   4344    100 877528 2592 6356  3672  6356 1819 15894  0 35  0 65
>  0 204 733556   3836    104 878256 2312 3132  3508  3132 1294 10905  0 33  0 67
>  0 205 736380   3388    100 877376 3084 3364  3832  3364 1322 11550  0 30  0 70
>  1 206 747016   2032    100 877760 2780 13144  4272 13144 1564 17486  0 37  0 63
>  1 205 756664   2192     96 878004 1704 7704  2116  7704 1341 20056  0 32  0 67
>  9 203 759084   3200     92 878516 2748 3168  3676  3168 1330 18252  0 45  0 54
>  0 205 761752   3928     96 877208 2604 2984  3284  2984 1330 10395  0 35  0 65
> 
> most of the time is spent in "wa", though it's a 4-way, so it means at least
> two cpus are spinning. I'm pushing the box hard into swap. 2.6 swap extremely
> slow w/ or w/o objrmap, not much difference really w/o or w/o your exploit.

Andrea, 

I did some swapping tests with 2.6 and found out that it was really slow, 
too. Very unresponsive under heavy swapping.

-mm fixed things for me. Not sure parts of it do the trick, though.

Can you be more specific on the "slow swap" comment you made ?

Thank you! 

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