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SubjectRe: Over-eager swapping
On 04/23/2012 06:27 PM, Richard Davies wrote:

> We run a number of relatively large x86-64 hosts with twenty or so qemu-kvm
> virtual machines on each of them, and I'm have some trouble with over-eager
> swapping on some of the machines. This is resulting in load spikes during the
> swapping and customer reports of very poor response latency from the virtual
> machines which have been swapped out, despite the hosts apparently having
> large amounts of free memory, and running fine if swap is turned off.
>
>
> All of the hosts are currently running a 3.1.4 or 3.2.2 kernel and have ksm
> enabled with 64GB of RAM and 2x eight-core AMD Opteron 6128 processors.
> However, we have seen this same problem since 2010 on a 2.6.32.7 kernel and
> older hardware - see http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=128075337008943
> (previous helpful contributors cc:ed here - thanks).
>
> We have /proc/sys/vm/swappiness set to 0. The kernel config is here:
> http://users.org.uk/config-3.1.4


Although you set swappiness to 0, kernel can swap out anon pages in
current implementation. I think it's a severe problem.

Couldn't this patch help you?
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/74824
It can prevent anon pages's swap out until few page cache remain.

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim


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