Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 29 Apr 2001 12:27:29 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Severe trashing in 2.4.4 |
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On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Frank de Lange wrote:
> Running 'nget v0.7' (a command line nntp 'grabber') on 2.4.4 leads to massive > amounts of memory disappearing in thin air. I'm currently running a single > instance of this app, and I'm seeing the memory drain away. The system has 256 > MB of physycal memory, and access to 500 MB of swap. Swap is not really being > used now, but it soon will be. Have a look at the current /proc/meminfo: > > [frank@behemoth mozilla]$ cat /proc/meminfo > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: > Mem: 262049792 259854336 2195456 0 1773568 31211520 > Swap: 511926272 4096 511922176 > MemTotal: 255908 kB > MemFree: 2144 kB > MemShared: 0 kB > Buffers: 1732 kB > Cached: 30480 kB > Active: 26944 kB > Inact_dirty: 2384 kB > Inact_clean: 2884 kB > Inact_target: 984 kB > HighTotal: 0 kB > HighFree: 0 kB > LowTotal: 255908 kB > LowFree: 2144 kB > SwapTotal: 499928 kB > SwapFree: 499924 kB
What about /proc/slabinfo? Notice that 2.4.4 (and couple of the 2.4.4-pre) has a bug in prune_icache() that makes it underestimate the amount of freeable inodes.
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