Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263317AbVBCL4M (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 06:56:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263169AbVBCL4L (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 06:56:11 -0500 Received: from web51601.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.38.206]:59571 "HELO web51601.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263028AbVBCLyv (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 06:54:51 -0500 Message-ID: <20050203115446.5063.qmail@web51601.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:54:46 +0100 (CET) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Terje=20F=E5berg?= Subject: Re: 2.6.10: kswapd spins like crazy To: Nick Piggin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1107427629.5611.13.camel@npiggin-nld.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="0-1132094803-1107431686=:97119" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4426 Lines: 164 --0-1132094803-1107431686=:97119 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Id: Content-Disposition: inline Nick Piggin skrev: > Can you post about 10 seconds of `vmstat 1` output > while this is happening? > > Also: > `cat /proc/vmstat > pre ; sleep 10 ; cat > /proc/vmstat > post` > while this is happening, and send the pre and post > files. > > cat /proc/meminfo also might be helpful. You will find those attached. > And compile a kernel with "magic sysrq" support, > and get a couple of Alt+SysRq+M dumps (the output > will be in dmesg). The kernel is compiling right now, but I cannot reboot this machine until six or seven o'clock tonight (CET). I will report then. Regards, Terje --0-1132094803-1107431686=:97119 Content-Type: text/plain; name=stat Content-Description: stat Content-Disposition: inline; filename=stat galileo:~# vmstat 1 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 2 5 428692 4964 118492 320196 84 72 6560 696 1561 8993 40 60 0 0 5 3 428884 3392 118516 318960 140 368 6832 1172 1517 8563 40 60 0 0 5 3 429908 4888 120548 318092 108 1844 5812 2020 1498 7842 53 47 0 0 4 4 430076 3296 121876 318472 340 184 6900 604 1396 8502 43 57 0 0 5 3 430120 4776 121748 316820 80 440 6780 440 1391 8360 34 66 0 0 4 4 430112 4916 123016 317304 376 68 7056 440 1293 8852 23 77 0 0 4 7 430096 4916 123576 316468 348 60 7324 204 1233 8290 21 79 0 0 5 3 430032 14084 129040 316960 192 0 6664 464 1380 8403 24 76 0 0 4 4 430032 7044 135060 317516 244 0 6424 0 1166 8217 17 83 0 0 5 3 430064 4548 138072 317388 172 216 6364 216 1176 8312 17 83 0 0 2 3 430132 4856 139000 316860 252 156 6656 872 1311 8125 19 81 0 0 ^C galileo:~# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 646052 kB MemFree: 3296 kB Buffers: 156912 kB Cached: 314876 kB SwapCached: 47524 kB Active: 92792 kB Inactive: 447588 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 646052 kB LowFree: 3296 kB SwapTotal: 2101056 kB SwapFree: 1661600 kB Dirty: 12088 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 103476 kB Slab: 30032 kB CommitLimit: 2424080 kB Committed_AS: 3125208 kB PageTables: 8440 kB VmallocTotal: 384980 kB VmallocUsed: 7392 kB VmallocChunk: 377500 kB galileo:~# cat /proc/vmstat > pre ; sleep 10 ; cat /proc/vmstat > post galileo:~# cat pre nr_dirty 61 nr_writeback 138 nr_unstable 0 nr_page_table_pages 2118 nr_mapped 24903 nr_slab 7494 pgpgin 40072965 pgpgout 32683347 pswpin 707678 pswpout 491400 pgalloc_high 0 pgalloc_normal 289749372 pgalloc_dma 5185962 pgfree 294936222 pgactivate 7678427 pgdeactivate 7086934 pgfault 76930918 pgmajfault 422426 pgrefill_high 0 pgrefill_normal 63766162 pgrefill_dma 3133019 pgsteal_high 0 pgsteal_normal 11946755 pgsteal_dma 855413 pgscan_kswapd_high 0 pgscan_kswapd_normal 31430190 pgscan_kswapd_dma 2037500863 pgscan_direct_high 0 pgscan_direct_normal 1083423 pgscan_direct_dma 89251 pginodesteal 0 slabs_scanned 15591040 kswapd_steal 12527148 kswapd_inodesteal 2803439 pageoutrun 3511541 allocstall 6111 pgrotated 719114 galileo:~# cat post nr_dirty 504 nr_writeback 38 nr_unstable 0 nr_page_table_pages 2093 nr_mapped 25652 nr_slab 7488 pgpgin 40106505 pgpgout 32695255 pswpin 710721 pswpout 491907 pgalloc_high 0 pgalloc_normal 289790611 pgalloc_dma 5185979 pgfree 294977468 pgactivate 7680721 pgdeactivate 7089056 pgfault 76933748 pgmajfault 423145 pgrefill_high 0 pgrefill_normal 63776342 pgrefill_dma 3133311 pgsteal_high 0 pgsteal_normal 11957164 pgsteal_dma 855422 pgscan_kswapd_high 0 pgscan_kswapd_normal 31443126 pgscan_kswapd_dma 2038597486 pgscan_direct_high 0 pgscan_direct_normal 1100385 pgscan_direct_dma 90604 pginodesteal 0 slabs_scanned 15596032 kswapd_steal 12531233 kswapd_inodesteal 2803526 pageoutrun 3511829 allocstall 6272 pgrotated 719582 --0-1132094803-1107431686=:97119-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/