linux-kernel - Re: Swappiness vs. mmap() and interactive response

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Message-ID: <20090428072619.GA29747@eskimo.com>
Date:	Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:26:19 -0700
From:	Elladan <elladan@...imo.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Elladan <elladan@...imo.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Swappiness vs. mmap() and interactive response

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 03:52:29PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> Hi
> 
> > 3. cache limitation of memcgroup solve this problem?
> > 
> > I was unable to get this to work -- do you have some documentation handy?
> 
> Do you have kernel source tarball?
> Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt explain usage kindly.

Thank you.  My documentation was out of date.

I created a cgroup with limited memory and placed a copy command in it, and the
latency problem seems to essentially go away.  However, I'm also a bit
suspicious that my test might have become invalid, since my IO performance
seems to have dropped somewhat too.

So, am I right in concluding that this more or less implicates bad page
replacement as the culprit?  After I dropped vm caches and let my working set
re-form, the memory cgroup seems to be effective at keeping a large pool of
memory free from file pressure.

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