On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 04:15:29PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 09:56:46AM -0400, Martin Hicks wrote: > > > > Here's the promised sysctl to dump a node's pagecache. Please review! > > > > This patch depends on the zone reclaim atomic ops cleanup: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=112307646306476&w=2 > > Doesn't numactl --bind=node memhog nodesize-someslack do the same? > > It just might kick in the oom killer if someslack is too small > or someone has unfreeable data there. But then there should be > already an sysctl to turn that one off.
Doesn't the memhog hack also cause the machine to swap a lot? The zone_reclaim() path doesn't let the memory reclaim code swap. mh -- Martin Hicks || Silicon Graphics Inc. || [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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/