Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:19:13 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Too much free memory (not used for FS cache) |
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:09:44 +0100 Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> wrote:
> since today's -next (20120315), the MM/VFS system is very sluggish. > Especially when committing, diffing and similar with git. I still have > 2G of 6G of memory free. But with each commit I have to wait for git to > fetch all data from disk. > > I'm using ext4 on a raid for the partition with git kernel repository if > that matters. > > Any idea what that could be?
The last mm->next update was March 5th so it won't be from stuff in the -mm queue.
Are you sure it's reclaim-related? Perhaps something in the IO system got slow?
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