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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:47:01 +0100
From: Jindřich Makovička <makovick@...il.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: khugepaged: gets stuck when writing to USB flash, 2.6.38-rc2
2011/2/4 Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>:
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 10:16:17PM +0100, Jindřich Makovička wrote:
>> I also tried echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
>> , and it seems preventing the system freeze, but still the copying
>> itself sometimes comes to almost complete stop (GkrellM shows short
>> spikes of tens of kB/s on the USB /dev/sdX). In this case, khugepaged
>> is also in DN. I still didn't observe this problem when disabling THP
>> completely by echo never > enabled .
>
> Ok then you may need this too:
>
> echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag
>
> Compaction is likely too heavy so we need to look into that.
Sorry for the delay.
Yes, disabling both defrag settings also solves the problem:
echo never >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
echo no > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag
--
Jindrich Makovicka
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