Messages in this thread | | | From | Leigh Orf <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.16 memory badness (reproducible) | Date | Sat, 08 Dec 2001 15:04:40 -0500 |
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No change - identical behavior.
Leigh Orf
Andrew Morton wrote:
| Leigh Orf wrote: | > | > Ken Brownfield wrote: | > | > | This parallels what I'm seeing -- perhaps inode/dentry cache | > | bloat is causing the memory issue (which mimics if not _is_ | > | a memory leak) _and_ my kswapd thrashing? It fits both the | > | situation you report and what I'm seeing with I/O across a | > | large number of files (inodes) -- updatedb, smb, NFS, etc. | > | | > | I think Andrea was on to this issue, so I'm hoping his work | > | will help. Have you tried an -aa kernel or an aa patch onto | > | a 2.4.17-pre4 to see how the kernel's behavior changes? | > | | > | -- | > | Ken. | > | brownfld@irridia.com | > | > I get the exact same behavior with 2.4.17-pre4-aa1 - many applications | > abort with ENOMEM after updatedb (filling the buffer and cache). Is | > there another kernel/patch I should try? | > | | Just for interest's sake: | | --- linux-2.4.17-pre6/mm/memory.c Fri Dec 7 15:39:52 2001 | +++ linux-akpm/mm/memory.c Sat Dec 8 11:13:30 2001 | @@ -1184,6 +1184,7 @@ static int do_anonymous_page(struct mm_s | flush_page_to_ram(page); | entry = pte_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot))); | lru_cache_add(page); | + activate_page(page); | } | | set_pte(page_table, entry);
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