Re: zram/zsmalloc issues in very low memory conditions

2013-11-02 Thread Stephen Barber
I did get zswap working without a backing store, using Bob's patches from http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/105627/focus=105642 applied to 3.11-rc6, The major issue we had with it was that i915 graphics buffers were getting corrupted somehow, which wasn't a problem with zram on the same

Re: zram/zsmalloc issues in very low memory conditions

2013-11-01 Thread Bob Liu
Hi Olav, On 11/02/2013 08:59 AM, Olav Haugan wrote: > > I tried the above suggestion but it does not seem to have any noticeable > impact. The system is still trying to swap out at a very high rate after > zram reported failure to swap out. The error logging is actually so much > that my system

Re: zram/zsmalloc issues in very low memory conditions

2013-11-01 Thread Olav Haugan
On 10/25/2013 2:19 AM, Minchan Kim wrote: > Hello, > > I had no enough time to think over your great questions since I should enjoy > in Edinburgh so if I miss something, Sorry! > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 02:51:34PM -0700, Olav Haugan wrote: >> I am trying to use zram in very low memory conditio

Re: zram/zsmalloc issues in very low memory conditions

2013-10-31 Thread Bob Liu
Hi Olav, On 11/01/2013 07:34 AM, Olav Haugan wrote: > Hi Luigi, > > On 10/24/2013 6:12 PM, Luigi Semenzato wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Olav Haugan wrote: >>> Hi Bob, Luigi, >>> >>> On 10/23/2013 5:55 PM, Bob Liu wrote: On 10/24/2013 05:51 AM, Olav Haugan wrote: >>>

Re: zram/zsmalloc issues in very low memory conditions

2013-10-31 Thread Luigi Semenzato
[apologies for the previous HTML email] Hi Olav, I haven't personally done it. Seth outlines the configuration in this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/105378/focus=105543 Stephen, can you add more detail from your experience? Thanks! On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Ol

Re: zram/zsmalloc issues in very low memory conditions

2013-10-31 Thread Olav Haugan
Hi Luigi, On 10/24/2013 6:12 PM, Luigi Semenzato wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Olav Haugan wrote: >> Hi Bob, Luigi, >> >> On 10/23/2013 5:55 PM, Bob Liu wrote: >>> >>> On 10/24/2013 05:51 AM, Olav Haugan wrote: >> >>> By the way, could you take a try with zswap? Which can write pages

Re: zram/zsmalloc issues in very low memory conditions

2013-10-25 Thread Minchan Kim
Hello, I had no enough time to think over your great questions since I should enjoy in Edinburgh so if I miss something, Sorry! On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 02:51:34PM -0700, Olav Haugan wrote: > I am trying to use zram in very low memory conditions and I am having > some issues. zram is in the reclai

Re: zram/zsmalloc issues in very low memory conditions

2013-10-24 Thread Bob Liu
On 10/25/2013 08:35 AM, Olav Haugan wrote: > Hi Bob, Luigi, > > On 10/23/2013 5:55 PM, Bob Liu wrote: >> >> On 10/24/2013 05:51 AM, Olav Haugan wrote: >>> I am trying to use zram in very low memory conditions and I am having >>> some issues. zram is in the reclaim path. So if the system is very lo

Re: zram/zsmalloc issues in very low memory conditions

2013-10-24 Thread Luigi Semenzato
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Olav Haugan wrote: > Hi Bob, Luigi, > > On 10/23/2013 5:55 PM, Bob Liu wrote: >> >> On 10/24/2013 05:51 AM, Olav Haugan wrote: >>> I am trying to use zram in very low memory conditions and I am having >>> some issues. zram is in the reclaim path. So if the system i

Re: zram/zsmalloc issues in very low memory conditions

2013-10-24 Thread Olav Haugan
Hi Bob, Luigi, On 10/23/2013 5:55 PM, Bob Liu wrote: > > On 10/24/2013 05:51 AM, Olav Haugan wrote: >> I am trying to use zram in very low memory conditions and I am having >> some issues. zram is in the reclaim path. So if the system is very low >> on memory the system is trying to reclaim pages

Re: zram/zsmalloc issues in very low memory conditions

2013-10-24 Thread Weijie Yang
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Olav Haugan wrote: > I am trying to use zram in very low memory conditions and I am having > some issues. zram is in the reclaim path. So if the system is very low > on memory the system is trying to reclaim pages by swapping out (in this > case to zram). However,

Re: zram/zsmalloc issues in very low memory conditions

2013-10-23 Thread Bob Liu
On 10/24/2013 05:51 AM, Olav Haugan wrote: > I am trying to use zram in very low memory conditions and I am having > some issues. zram is in the reclaim path. So if the system is very low > on memory the system is trying to reclaim pages by swapping out (in this > case to zram). However, since we

Re: zram/zsmalloc issues in very low memory conditions

2013-10-23 Thread Luigi Semenzato
(sorry about the HTML in the previous message) On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Olav Haugan wrote: > I am trying to use zram in very low memory conditions and I am having > some issues. zram is in the reclaim path. So if the system is very low > on memory the system is trying to reclaim pages by

zram/zsmalloc issues in very low memory conditions

2013-10-23 Thread Olav Haugan
I am trying to use zram in very low memory conditions and I am having some issues. zram is in the reclaim path. So if the system is very low on memory the system is trying to reclaim pages by swapping out (in this case to zram). However, since we are very low on memory zram fails to get a page from