From: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: l.roehrs@profihost.ag, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: lot of MemAvailable but falling cache and raising PSI
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 14:27:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7379c903-3a46-a1b0-0903-ce03c982226a@profihost.ag> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5c1d6fca-4bbe-1c09-e0c5-523bca8fbb6a@suse.cz>
Am 05.09.19 um 14:15 schrieb Vlastimil Babka:
> On 9/5/19 1:27 PM, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> i hope you can help me again to understand the current MemAvailable
>> value in the linux kernel. I'm running a 4.19.52 kernel + psi patches in
>> this case.
>>
>> I'm seeing the following behaviour i don't understand and ask for help.
>>
>> While MemAvailable shows 5G the kernel starts to drop cache from 4G down
>> to 1G while the apache spawns some PHP processes. After that the PSI
>> mem.some value rises and the kernel tries to reclaim memory but
>> MemAvailable stays at 5G.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> PHP seems to use madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE), so if it's a NUMA machine it
> might be worth trying to cherry-pick these two commits:
> 92717d429b38 ("Revert "Revert "mm, thp: consolidate THP gfp handling
> into alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask""")
> a8282608c88e ("Revert "mm, thp: restore node-local hugepage allocations"")
No it's a vm running inside qemu/kvm without numa.
Greets,
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-05 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-05 11:27 lot of MemAvailable but falling cache and raising PSI Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-05 11:40 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-05 11:56 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-05 16:28 ` Yang Shi
2019-09-05 17:26 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-05 18:46 ` Yang Shi
2019-09-05 19:31 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-06 10:08 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-06 10:25 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-09-06 18:52 ` Yang Shi
2019-09-07 7:32 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-09 8:27 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-09 8:54 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-09 11:01 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-09 12:08 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-09 12:10 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-09 12:28 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-09 12:37 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-09 12:49 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-09 12:56 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
[not found] ` <52235eda-ffe2-721c-7ad7-575048e2d29d@profihost.ag>
2019-09-10 5:58 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-10 8:29 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-10 8:38 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-10 9:02 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-10 9:37 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-10 11:07 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-10 12:45 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-10 12:57 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-10 13:05 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-10 13:14 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-10 13:24 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-11 6:12 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-11 6:24 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-11 13:59 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-12 10:53 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-12 11:06 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-11 7:09 ` 5.3-rc-8 hung task in IO (was: Re: lot of MemAvailable but falling cache and raising PSI) Michal Hocko
2019-09-11 14:09 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-11 14:56 ` Filipe Manana
2019-09-11 15:39 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-11 15:56 ` Filipe Manana
2019-09-11 16:15 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-11 16:19 ` Filipe Manana
2019-09-19 10:21 ` lot of MemAvailable but falling cache and raising PSI Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-23 12:08 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-27 12:45 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-09-30 6:56 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-30 7:21 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-10-22 7:41 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-10-22 7:48 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-10-22 10:02 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-10-22 10:20 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-22 10:21 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-10-22 11:08 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-10 5:41 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-09 11:49 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-09-09 12:09 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-09 12:21 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-09-09 12:31 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2019-09-05 12:15 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-09-05 12:27 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG [this message]
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