Michael Kelly, le lun. 12 mai 2025 15:38:48 +0100, a ecrit: > On 12/05/2025 08:45, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > I was so surprised by this that I actually commented out all of the > code in vm_pageout_scan except for the page balancing but it still did > the same. > > Have you tried commenting the page balancing? > > I did indeed try commenting that out too which in effect made pageout_scan a > noop but that resulted in the system 'freezing' after launching the 3rd > process.
Argl. That's surprising, though, the allocator should be using mostly high-level memory segments, and fallback to the lower segments only if memory is really scarce, I don't think we have so much demand for lower segments otherwise... > I could enter the kernel debugger but not interact with the system via > any console. You can check the allocation load with show vmstat Samuel
