Re: mlockall(MCL_CURRENT) blocking infinitely

From: Jan Kara
Date: Wed Nov 06 2019 - 12:25:24 EST


On Wed 06-11-19 18:03:10, Robert Stupp wrote:
> Oh, and I just realized, that I have two custom settings in my
> /etc/rc.local - guess, I configured that when I installed that machine
> years ago. Sorry, that I haven't mentioned that earlier.
>
> echo 0 > /sys/block/nvme0n1/queue/read_ahead_kb
> echo never >
> /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
>
> That setting is probably not quite standard, but I assume there are
> some database server setups out there, that set RA=0 as well.

Ok, yes, that explains ra_pages == 0. Thanks for the details.

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
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