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From: Alexey Avramov <hakavlad@inbox.lv>
To: ndrw.xf@redhazel.co.uk
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, aros@gmx.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	mhocko@kernel.org, surenb@google.com, vbabka@suse.cz
Subject: Re: Let's talk about the elephant in the room - the Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2021 02:32:01 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210725023201.13f0d2f2@mail.inbox.lv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <806F5696-A8D6-481D-A82F-49DEC1F2B035@redhazel.co.uk>

> Would it be possible to reserve a fixed (configurable) amount of RAM 
> for caches, and trigger OOM killer earlier, before most UI code is 
> evicted from memory?

Yes! Try this patch: https://github.com/hakavlad/le9-patch

The patch provides sysctl knobs for protecting the specified amount of 
clean file pages under memory pressure.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-24 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-04  9:23 Let's talk about the elephant in the room - the Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure Artem S. Tashkinov
2019-08-05 12:13 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-08-05 13:31   ` Michal Hocko
2019-08-05 16:47     ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-08-05 18:55     ` Johannes Weiner
2019-08-06  9:29       ` Michal Hocko
2019-08-05 19:31   ` Johannes Weiner
2019-08-06  1:08     ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-08-06  9:36       ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-08-06 14:27         ` Johannes Weiner
2019-08-06 14:36           ` Michal Hocko
2019-08-06 16:27             ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-08-06 22:01               ` Johannes Weiner
2019-08-07  7:59                 ` Michal Hocko
2019-08-07 20:51                   ` Johannes Weiner
2019-08-07 21:01                     ` Andrew Morton
2019-08-07 21:34                       ` Johannes Weiner
2019-08-07 21:12                     ` Johannes Weiner
2019-08-08 11:48                     ` Michal Hocko
2019-08-08 15:10                       ` ndrw.xf
2019-08-08 16:32                         ` Michal Hocko
2019-08-08 17:57                           ` ndrw.xf
2019-08-08 18:59                             ` Michal Hocko
2019-08-08 21:59                               ` ndrw
2019-08-09  8:57                                 ` Michal Hocko
2019-08-09 10:09                                   ` ndrw
2019-08-09 10:50                                     ` Michal Hocko
2019-08-09 14:18                                       ` Pintu Agarwal
2019-08-10 12:34                                       ` ndrw
2019-08-12  8:24                                         ` Michal Hocko
2019-08-10 21:07                                   ` ndrw
2021-07-24 17:32                         ` Alexey Avramov [this message]
2019-08-08 14:47                     ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-08-08 17:27                       ` Johannes Weiner
2019-08-09 14:56                         ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-08-09 17:31                           ` Johannes Weiner
2019-08-13 13:47                             ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-08-06 21:43       ` James Courtier-Dutton
2019-08-06 19:00 ` Florian Weimer
2019-08-20  6:46 ` Daniel Drake
2019-08-21 21:42   ` James Courtier-Dutton
2019-08-29 12:29     ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-02 20:15     ` Pavel Machek
2019-08-23  1:54   ` ndrw
2019-08-23  2:14     ` Daniel Drake
     [not found] <20190805090514.5992-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2019-08-05 12:01 ` Artem S. Tashkinov
2019-08-06  8:57 Johannes Buchner
2019-08-06 19:43 Remi Gauvin

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