> > Are you sure you're seeing kreclaimd looping too much here ?
>
> Snippet from one of Dirk's logs.
>
> PID PPID USER PRI SIZE SWAP RSS SHARE D STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMA
> 3 1 root 20 0 0 0 0 0 RW 58.8 0.0 2:41 kswapd
> 1494 1421 novatest 15 2009M 640M 1.3G 51476 0M R N 40.8 34.5 6:26 ceqsim
> 1751 1747 root 14 1048 4 1044 824 55 R 28.0 0.0 0:02 top
> 4 1 root 14 0 0 0 0 0 SW 27.1 0.0 1:06 krecla
I'm pretty sure this is because kreclaimd is woken up from
__alloc_pages() all the time and cannot find anything useful
to do ...
regards,
Rik
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