Try this (my example I've 2GB of ram)
turn all your swap off
dd about 15% of the size of your RAM:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/local/test count=300 bs=1000000
Run this program with SIZE about 95% of your RAM:
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <assert.h>
#define SIZE (1900 * 1024 * 1024)
int main()
{
int i;
char *p = malloc(SIZE);
assert (p != NULL);
for (i = 0; i < SIZE; i++)
p[i] = 1;
printf ("done %p\n", p);
while (1)
{
sleep (60);
}
return 0;
}
Watch top: when this program needs the memory that kswapd keep in cache they go
both at 100% cpu (on SMP) but still the size of the program only grows at about
100KB/s, why is kswapd releasing it so slowly and taking so much CPU ?
Laurent Chavet
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