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SubjectRe: difficult to pinpoint exhaustion of swap between 4.2.0-rc6 and 4.2.0-rc7


Vlastimil Babka wrote on 21/08/15 21:18:
> On 08/21/2015 01:37 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>>
>> That, said, looking at the memory values:
>>
>> rc6: Free+Buffers+A/I(Anon)+A/I(File)+Slab = 6769MB
>> rc7: ... = 4714MB
>>
>> That's 2GB unaccounted for.
>
> So one brute-force way to see who allocated those 2GB is to use the
> page_owner debug feature. You need to enable CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER and then
> follow the Usage part of Documentation/vm/page_owner.txt
> If you can do that, please send the sorted_page_owner.txt for rc7 when
> it's semi-nearing the exhausted swap. Then you could start doing a
> comparison run with rc6, but maybe it will be easy to figure from the
> rc7 log already. Thanks.
>

I'm currently rebuilding the rc7 kernel with CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER=y and
will test that.

Arthur.


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