On Wed 01-02-17 03:29:28, Trevor Cordes wrote: > On 2017-01-30 Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > > Testing with Valinall rc6 released just yesterday would be a good fit. > > There are some more fixes sitting on mmotm on top and maybe we want > > some of them in finall 4.10. Anyway all those pending changes should > > be merged in the next merge window - aka 4.11 > > After 30 hours of running vanilla 4.10.0-rc6, the box started to go > bonkers at 3am, so vanilla does not fix the bug :-( But, the bug hit > differently this time, the box just bogged down like crazy and gave > really weird top output. Starting nano would take 10s, then would run > full speed, then when saving a file would take 5s. Starting any prog > not in cache took equally as long.
Could you try with to_test/linus-tree/oom_hickups branch on the same git tree? I have cherry-picked "mm, vmscan: consider eligible zones in get_scan_count" which might be the missing part. Thanks! -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
