linux-kernel - Re: swap storm since kernel 3.2.x

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Date:	Wed, 8 Feb 2012 09:56:15 +0100
From:	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>
To:	Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>
Cc:	Johannes Stezenbach <js@...21.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: swap storm since kernel 3.2.x


Hillf Danton wrote at 12:38:31
> 2012/2/5 Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>:
> > Hillf Danton wrote at 05:45:40
> > 
> >> Would you please try the patchset of Rik?
> >> 
> >>          https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/26/374
> > 
> > It doesn't applied successfully agains 3.2.3 (+patch +f 3.2.5)
> > 
> > :-(
> 
> That patchset already in -next tree, mind to try it with
> CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG first disabled, and try again with it enabled?
> 
> Hillf
I switched back to 3.0.20 in the mean while.

>From what I can tell is this:
If the system is under heavy I/O load and hasn't too much free RAM (git pull, 
svn update and RAM consuming BOINC applications) then kernel 3.0.20 handle 
this somehow while 3.2.x run into a swap storm like.

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