Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:56:51 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.8.1 mempool subsystem sickness |
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On Thu, Sep 16 2004, Nick Piggin wrote: > Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > >Jeff > > > >Here's the stats from the test of the patch against 2.6.8-rc2 with the > >patch applied > > > > > > Scanning stats look good at a quick glance. kswapd doesn't seem to be > going crazy. > > However, > size-65536 32834 32834 65536 1 16 > > This slab entry is taking up about 2GB of unreclaimable memory (order-4, > no less). This must be a leak... does the number continue to rise as > your system runs?
There's also a huge amount of 16-page bio + vecs in flight:
biovec-16 131340
That would point to a leak as well, most likely.
-- Jens Axboe
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