Re: Memory management issue in 4.18.15

[Randy Dunlap]

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On 10/20/18 4:41 AM, Spock wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a workload, which creates lots of cache pages. Before 4.18.15,
> the behavior was very stable: pagecache is constantly growing until it
> consumes all the free memory, and then kswapd is balancing it around
> low watermark. After 4.18.15, once in a while khugepaged is waking up
> and reclaims almost all the pages from pagecache, so there is always
> around 2G of 8G unused. THP is enabled only for madvise case and are
> not used.
> 
> The exact change that leads to current behavior is
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-4.18.y&id=62aad93f09c1952ede86405894df1b22012fd5ab
> 


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~Randy