Re: Over-eager swapping
From: Rik van Riel
Date: Wed Apr 25 2012 - 10:42:36 EST
On 04/23/2012 05:27 AM, Richard Davies wrote:
The rrd graphs at http://imgur.com/a/Fklxr show a typical incident.
We estimate memory used from /proc/meminfo as:
= MemTotal - MemFree - Buffers + SwapTotal - SwapFree
The first rrd shows memory used increasing as a VM starts, but not getting
near the 64GB of physical RAM.
The second rrd shows the heavy swapping this VM start caused.
The third rrd shows a multi-gigabyte jump in swap used = SwapTotal - SwapFree
The fourth rrd shows the large load spike (from 1 to 15) caused by this swap
storm.
These are exactly the kind of swap storms that led me
make the VM tweaks that got merged into 3.4-rc :)
See these commits:
fe2c2a106663130a5ab45cb0e3414b52df2fff0c
7be62de99adcab4449d416977b4274985c5fe023
aff622495c9a0b56148192e53bdec539f5e147f2
1480de0340a8d5f094b74d7c4b902456c9a06903
496b919b3bdd957d4b1727df79bfa3751bced1c1
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