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SubjectRe: Very aggressive memory reclaim
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Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> writes:
>
> First it would be useful to determine why the VM is reclaiming so
> much memory. If it is somewhat predictable when the excessive
> reclaim is going to happen, it might be worth capturing an event

Often it's to get pages of a higher order. Just tracing alloc_pages
should tell you that.

There are a few other cases (like memory failure handling), but they're
more obscure.

-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only


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