Re: 6.10/regression/bisected - after f1d97e769152 I spotted increased execution time of the kswapd0 process and symptoms as if there is not enough memory

[Andrea Gelmini]

Il giorno mer 3 lug 2024 alle ore 13:59 Filipe Manana
<fdmanana@xxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
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> I'm collecting all the patches in this branch:
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> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/fdmanana/linux.git/log/?h=em_shrinker_6.10
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> They apply cleanly to 6.10-rc.

Yeap, as I wrote before, same problem here.
I tried the branch over today Linus git (master), and nothing changed.
But, good news, I can provide a few more details.

So, no need to use restic. On my laptop (nvme + ssd, 32GB RAM, Lenovo T480):
a) boot up;
b) just open Window Maker and two Konsole, one with htop (with a few
tricks to view PSI and so on);
c) on one terminal run: tar cp /home/ | pv > /dev/null
d) wait less than one minutes, and I see "PSI full memory" increase
more than 50, memory pressure on swap, and two CPU threads (out of
eight) busy at  100%;
e) system get sluggish (on htop I see no process eating CPU);
f) if I kill tar, PSI memory keeps going up and down, so the threads.
After lots of minutes, everything get back to no activity. In these
minutes I see by iotop there's no activity nor on ssd or nvme. Until
the end, the system is unresponsive, oh well, really slow.

My / is BTRFS. Not many years of aging. Usually with daily snapshots
and forced compression.

Less than 4.000.000 files on the system. Usually .git and source code.

root@glen:/home/gelma# btrfs filesystem usage /
Overall:
   Device size:                   3.54TiB
   Device allocated:              2.14TiB
   Device unallocated:            1.40TiB
   Device missing:                  0.00B
   Device slack:                    0.00B
   Used:                          2.03TiB
   Free (estimated):              1.50TiB      (min: 1.50TiB)
   Free (statfs, df):             1.50TiB
   Data ratio:                       1.00
   Metadata ratio:                   1.00
   Global reserve:              512.00MiB      (used: 0.00B)
   Multiple profiles:                  no

Data,single: Size:2.12TiB, Used:2.02TiB (95.09%)
  /dev/mapper/sda6_crypt          2.12TiB

Metadata,single: Size:16.00GiB, Used:14.73GiB (92.04%)
  /dev/mapper/sda6_crypt         16.00GiB

System,single: Size:32.00MiB, Used:320.00KiB (0.98%)
  /dev/mapper/sda6_crypt         32.00MiB

Unallocated:
  /dev/mapper/sda6_crypt          1.40TiB