Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 May 1998 09:30:03 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.99 is less rusty |
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On Sun, 3 May 1998, Bill Metzenthen wrote: > According to linker@nightshade.ml.org: > > > 2.0 performed better becase some disk blocks got cached. > > 2.1 performes worse because the dcache gets plumped but not slimmed. > > Maybe, I don't claim to understand why the rusting effect occurs...
It could still well be that other things are using too much memory too, like the inodes and the file structs. We really should reclaim them too...
> I don't know what causes the effect. People have suggested it is due > to either memory fragmentation or cache memory not being freed. I > have looked at the stuff available via /proc and SysRq but it didn't > appear to particularly support either hypothesis.
There should be some clues in /proc/slabinfo, /proc/meminfo and /proc/sys/kernel/{dentry-state,file-nr,inode-state}. It could just as well be that your system uses/allocates too many inodes or open files... (which we can't currently reclaim)
> I don't have the time at the moment to get stuck into solving the > problem myself so I have to hope that the people who have designed the > stuff will fix it (if they feel so inclined and can find the time...).
We like seeing our code used by as many people as possible, so we concentrate major effort into making it possible for everybody to use it... Ie: Yes, we do what we can to fix the bugs, although some more detailed reports (complete with memory usage calculations) _are_ welcome. (When you figure out what we should change, we can get straight to the code and fix stuff)
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