On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:24:40AM -0400, Martin Hicks wrote: > > 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
Hack? - compared to your "solutions" it looks very clean to me. > zone_reclaim() path doesn't let the memory reclaim code swap. reclaim with bound policy should only swap on the bound nodemask (or at least it did when I originally implemented NUMA policy) -Andi - 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/