Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:13:19 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: ZONE_NORMAL exhaustion (dcache slab) |
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>> > Maybe you didn't cat /dev/sda2 for long enough? >> >> Well, it's a multi-gigabyte partition. IIRC, I just ran it until >> it died with "input/output error" ... which I assumed at the time >> was the end of the partition, but it should be able to find that >> without error, so maybe it just ran out of ZONE_NORMAL ;-) > > Oh. Well it should have just hit eof. Maybe you have a dud > sector and it terminated early.
OK, I catted an 18Gb disk completely. The beast still didn't shrink.
larry:~# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 16078192 kB MemFree: 15043280 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 79152 kB Cached: 287248 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 263056 kB Inactive: 105136 kB HighTotal: 15335424 kB HighFree: 15039616 kB LowTotal: 742768 kB LowFree: 3664 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Dirty: 0 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 3736 kB Slab: 641352 kB Reserved: 570000 kB Committed_AS: 2400 kB PageTables: 180 kB ReverseMaps: 2236
ext2_inode_cache 476254 541125 416 60125 60125 1 : 120 dentry_cache 2336272 2336280 160 97345 97345 1 : 248 124
Note that dentry cache seems to have grown overnight ....
I guess I'll add some debug code to the slab cache shrinkers and try to see what it's doing.
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