Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:11:04 +0530 | From | Balbir Singh <> | Subject | Re: dcache leak in 2.6.16-git8 II |
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On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 12:53:24AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Thursday 30 March 2006 00:50, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > It looks that way. Didn't someone else report a sock_inode_cache leak? > > Didn't see it. > > > > I still got a copy of the /proc in case anybody wants more information. > > > > We have this fancy new /proc/slab_allocators now, it might show something > > interesting. It needs CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK. > > I didn't have that enabled unfortunately. I can try it on the next round. > > -Andi >
There is also a new sysctl to drop caches. It is called vm.drop_caches. It will be interesting to see if it is able to free up some dcache memory for you.
Balbir
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