Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Mar 2013 17:52:22 +0800 | Subject | Inactive memory keep growing and how to release it? | From | Lenky Gao <> |
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Hi,
When i just run a test on Centos 6.2 as follows:
#!/bin/bash
while true do
file="/tmp/filetest"
echo $file
dd if=/dev/zero of=${file} bs=512 count=204800 &> /dev/null
sleep 5 done
the inactive memory keep growing:
#cat /proc/meminfo | grep Inactive\(fi Inactive(file): 420144 kB ... #cat /proc/meminfo | grep Inactive\(fi Inactive(file): 911912 kB ... #cat /proc/meminfo | grep Inactive\(fi Inactive(file): 1547484 kB ...
and i cannot reclaim it:
# cat /proc/meminfo | grep Inactive\(fi Inactive(file): 1557684 kB # echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches # cat /proc/meminfo | grep Inactive\(fi Inactive(file): 1520832 kB
I have tested on other version kernel, such as 2.6.30 and .6.11, the problom also exists.
When in the final situation, i cannot kmalloc a larger contiguous memory, especially in interrupt context. Can you give some tips to avoid this?
PS: # uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Dec 6 19:48:22 GMT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
-- Regards,
Lenky
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