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

[Mikhail Gavrilov]

On Sunday, Jul 7, 2024, at 5:15 PM Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxxxx>, wrote:
> That's good. And is the DE unresponsiveness gone too?

Yes. I don’t know how to objectively measure responsiveness, but there
There were no more freezes like those on my video.

> I see you tested d22fedf5058d, but I updated the branch a couple hours
> ago, now the top commit is fa8b5dd7fa18.
> Can you test the updated branch? It may help further in your case.
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/fdmanana/linux.git/commit/?h=test3_em_shrinker_6.10&id=fa8b5dd7fa18a4dc2ea6bdeaf5525b1af348f383

6.10.0-rc6-test3_em_shrinker_6.10-fa8b5dd7fa18
up  1:00
root         269 13.1  0.0      0     0 ?        S    18:01   7:54 [kswapd0]
up  2:00
root         269  9.8  0.0      0     0 ?        S    18:01  11:46 [kswapd0]
up  3:00
root         269 10.8  0.0      0     0 ?        S    18:01  19:36 [kswapd0]
up  4:00
root         269 11.9  0.0      0     0 ?        R    18:01  28:37 [kswapd0]
up  5:00
root         269 13.1  0.0      0     0 ?        S    18:01  39:29 [kswapd0]
up  6:00
root         269 13.1  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Jul07  47:24 [kswapd0]

It’s as if kswapd0 got worse based on time measurements (it became
like on the test2 branch), but subjectively, the responsiveness got
better.

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Best Regards,
Mike Gavrilov.

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