Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This machine only has 4G of memory, so the platform code is overestimating > > the number of pages by 50%. Can you please check your dmesg, see if your > > system is also getting this wrong? > > > > On node 0 totalpages: 1572863 > DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 > Normal zone: 1568767 pages, LIFO batch:31 > HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 > On node 1 totalpages: 131071 > DMA zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 > Normal zone: 131071 pages, LIFO batch:31 > HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 > On node 2 totalpages: 131071 > DMA zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 > Normal zone: 131071 pages, LIFO batch:31 > HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 > On node 3 totalpages: 131071 > DMA zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 > Normal zone: 131071 pages, LIFO batch:31 > HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
That's 7.7GB, yes? On a 6GB machine? If so, that's a bit off, but not grossly. Here's the dopey debug patch which I used: - boot - dmesg -s 1000000 | grep total_pages > foo - kill off syslogd (sudo service syslog stop) - run the dd command - wait for it to hit steady state (max dirty memory) - dmesg -s 1000000 >> foo diff -puN mm/page-writeback.c~a mm/page-writeback.c --- 25/mm/page-writeback.c~a 2005-07-26 15:53:46.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/mm/page-writeback.c 2005-07-26 16:21:55.000000000 -0700 @@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ get_dirty_limits(struct writeback_state dirty_ratio = vm_dirty_ratio; if (dirty_ratio > unmapped_ratio / 2) dirty_ratio = unmapped_ratio / 2; - + printk("vm_dirty_ratio=%d unmapped_ratio=%d dirty_ratio=%d\n", + vm_dirty_ratio, unmapped_ratio, dirty_ratio); if (dirty_ratio < 5) dirty_ratio = 5; @@ -171,6 +172,8 @@ get_dirty_limits(struct writeback_state background = (background_ratio * available_memory) / 100; dirty = (dirty_ratio * available_memory) / 100; + printk("dirty_ratio=%d available_memory=%lu dirty=%lu\n", + dirty_ratio, available_memory, dirty); tsk = current; if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk)) { background += background / 4; @@ -209,6 +212,12 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a get_dirty_limits(&wbs, &background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, mapping); nr_reclaimable = wbs.nr_dirty + wbs.nr_unstable; + printk("background_thresh=%ld dirty_thresh=%ld " + "nr_dirty=%ld nr_unstable=%ld " + "nr_reclaimable=%ld wbs.nr_writeback=%ld\n", + background_thresh, dirty_thresh, + wbs.nr_dirty, wbs.nr_unstable, + nr_reclaimable, wbs.nr_writeback); if (nr_reclaimable + wbs.nr_writeback <= dirty_thresh) break; @@ -532,6 +541,8 @@ void __init page_writeback_init(void) total_pages = nr_free_pagecache_pages(); + printk("total_pages=%ld\n", total_pages); + correction = (100 * 4 * buffer_pages) / total_pages; if (correction < 100) { _ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/