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SubjectRe: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell
Andrew wrote:
> Even if the background activity was clamped to just a few megs
> of cache you'll find that the seek activity is a killer, and
> needs a limitation mechanism.

True - the seek activity is another critical resource that would need to
be throttled to keep updatedb/backup from interferring with my late
night labours.

Let's see, that's:
1) cpu scheduling ticks
2) memory for virtual address backing store
3) memory for file related caching
4) disk arm motion

Hmmm ... actually not so much a numa-placement extension, but rather a
CKRM opportunity.

CKRM focuses on measuring and restraining how much of specified critical
resources a task is using; numa placement on which cpus or memory nodes
are allowed to be used at all.

See further the CKRM thread of Shailabh Nagar, also running on lkml
today.

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