Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Apr 2001 13:58:52 -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:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 12:27:29PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > > 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. > > Gotcha, wrt. slabinfo. Seems 2.4.4 (at least on my box) only knows how to > allocate skbuff_head_cache entries, not how to free them. Here's the last > /proc/slabinfo entry before I sysRQ'd the box:
> skbuff_head_cache 341136 341136 160 14214 14214 1 : 252 126 > size-2048 66338 66338 2048 33169 33169 1 : 60 30
Hmm... I'd say that you also have a leak in kmalloc()'ed stuff - something in 1K--2K range. From your logs it looks like the thing never shrinks and grows prettu fast...
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