On 01/30/11 12:09, Kostik Belousov wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 05:27:38PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
On 19 January 2011 16:02, Kostik Belousov<[email protected]> wrote:
http://people.freebsd.org/~ivoras/diffs/tmpfs.h.patch
I don't think this is a complete solution but it's a start. If you can,
try it and see if it helps.
This is not a start, and actually a step in the wrong direction.
Tmpfs is wrong now, but the patch would make the wrongness even bigger.
Issue is that the current tmpfs calculation should not depend on the
length of the inactive queue or the amount of free pages. This data only
measures the pressure on the pagedaemon, and has absolutely no relation
to the amount of data that can be put into anonymous objects before the
system comes out of swap.
vm_lowmem handler is invoked in two situations:
- when KVA cannot satisfy the request for the space allocation;
- when pagedaemon have to start the scan.
None of the situations has any direct correlation with the fact that
tmpfs needs to check, that is "Is there enough swap to keep all my
future anonymous memory requests ?".
Might be, swap reservation numbers can be useful to the tmpfs reporting.
Also might be, tmpfs should reserve the swap explicitely on start, instead
of making attempts to guess how much can be allocated at random moment.
Thank you for your explanation! I'm still not very familiar with VM
and VFS. Could you also read my report at
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg126491.html
? I'm curious about the fact that there is lots of 'free' memory here
in the same situation.
This is another ugliness in the dynamic calculation. Your wired is around
15GB, that is always greater then available swap + free + inactive.
As result, tmpfs_mem_info() always returns 0.
In this situation TMPFS_PAGES_MAX() seems to return negative value, and
then TMPFS_PAGES_AVAIL() clamps at 0.
Well, if nobody can take care of this now, could you please state this
in the BUGS section of the tmpfs man page?
Thanks,
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