[Tmem-devel] tmem how to get current usage in megabytes?

[Vasiliy G Tolstov]

On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 01:38 +0400, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 10:27 -0700, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> > Hmmm.... it appears to me that your 2GB swapdisk is
> > already full.  I think the self-ballooning IS working
> > but is targeting a memory size which is too small
> > which results in swapping.  Then frontswap gets
> > filled up (limited to sum of sizes of your swapdisks).
> > Do I remember from an earlier email that you have
> > "noselfshrink" in your guest grub.conf?  If so, then
> > frontswap will remain full.
> > 
> > I would first try increasing the size of your guest
> > swap disk (or, if easier, adding a second much larger
> > swap disk) to see if it helps.
> > 
> > There are also a number of "tunables" for selfballooning
> > and frontswap-selfshrinking that can be adjusted in
> > /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/*
> > including a min_target_kb that will limit the lower
> > limit that selfballooning will target.
> > 
> > I have a script which runs inside the guest to measure
> > certain important memory activity.  I usually launch it
> > in /etc/rc.local, though by the time /etc/rc.local
> > starts, self-ballooning has already started.  See
> > attached script.
> > 
> > Hope that helps!
> > Dan
> 
> I think we use various versions of patches becouse i do not have
> min_target_kb , but have target_kb, if i try to write small value -
> memory is shrinking. But You say, that the current version of patch do
> the shrinking automatik in kernel, where i can find this version of
> patch?

I think i have mistake in my patch. Can you check my patch that i send?


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