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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] memcg soft limit (yet another new design) v1
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:30:55 +0530
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> * KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> [2009-03-31 08:55:38]:
>
> > On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:57:47 +0530
> > Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > > * Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-03-28 23:41:00]:
> > >
> > > > * KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> [2009-03-27 13:59:33]:
> > > >
> > > > > ==brief test result==
> > > > > On 2CPU/1.6GB bytes machine. create group A and B
> > > > > A. soft limit=300M
> > > > > B. no soft limit
> > > > >
> > > > > Run a malloc() program on B and allcoate 1G of memory. The program just
> > > > > sleeps after allocating memory and no memory refernce after it.
> > > > > Run make -j 6 and compile the kernel.
> > > > >
> > > > > When vm.swappiness = 60 => 60MB of memory are swapped out from B.
> > > > > When vm.swappiness = 10 => 1MB of memory are swapped out from B
> > > > >
> > > > > If no soft limit, 350MB of swap out will happen from B.(swapiness=60)
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > I ran the same tests, booted the machine with mem=1700M and maxcpus=2
> > > >
> > > > Here is what I see with
> > >
> > > I meant to say, Here is what I see with my patches (v7)
> > >
> > Hmm, I saw 250MB of swap out ;) As I reported before.
>
> Swapout for A? For A it is expected, but for B it is not. How many
> nodes do you have on your machine? Any fake numa nodes?
>
Of course, from B.

Nothing special boot options. My test was on VMware 2cpus/1.6GB memory.

I wonder why swapout can be 0 on your test. Do you add some extra hooks to
kswapd ?

Thanks,
-Kame







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