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.
next prev 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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