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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:26:00 +0400
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Subject: Re: Very aggressive memory reclaim
From: John Lepikhin <johnlepikhin@gmail.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
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2011/3/29 Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>:

> First it would be useful to determine why the VM is reclaiming so
> much memory. If it is somewhat predictable when the excessive
> reclaim is going to happen, it might be worth capturing an event
> trace from the VM so we can see more precisely what it is doiing
> during this event. In that case, recording the kmem/* and vmscan/*
> events is probably sufficient to tell us what memory allocations
> triggered reclaim and how much reclaim was done on each event.

Do you mean I must add some debug to mm functions? I don't know any
other way to catch such events.