Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:22:57 +0100
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
To: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
        Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>,
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        Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] mm: vmscan: Limit the number of pages kswapd
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On Thu 28-03-13 23:31:18, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 03/25/2013 10:13 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > BTW I very pray this will fix also the issue I have when I run ltp tests
> > (highly I/O intensive, esp. `growfiles') in a VM while playing a movie
> > on the host resulting in a stuttered playback ;).
> 
> No, this is still terrible. I was now updating a kernel in a VM and had
> problems to even move with cursor.

:/

> There was still 1.2G used by I/O cache.

Could you collect /proc/zoneinfo and /proc/vmstat (say in 1 or 2s
intervals)?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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