Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:09:08 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: Relieving lowmem pressure on a highmem box, 2.4 |
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> I have a Dell server with 12GB of RAM in it which is having a lot of > trouble with lowmem pressure. wli's bloatmeter script shows that it's > a lot of buffer-heads and inodes. > > $ bloatmost | head -4 > buffer_head: 191316KB 211893KB 90.28 > inode_cache: 64813KB 66097KB 98.5 > size-64: 82KB 10871KB 0.75 > size-32: 95KB 5694KB 1.68 > > $ cat /proc/slabinfo | sort -k 2,2n | tail > size-512 1052 1176 512 132 147 1 : 124 62 > dentry_cache 1068 2580 128 86 86 1 : 252 126 > blkdev_requests 1200 1200 128 40 40 1 : 252 126 > filp 1230 1230 128 41 41 1 : 252 126 > size-32 1532 91118 64 42 1571 1 : 252 126 > pte_chain 2466 13050 128 157 435 1 : 252 126 > size-128 2946 3450 128 115 115 1 : 252 126 > vm_area_struct 3192 4830 128 138 161 1 : 252 126 > inode_cache 129503 132195 512 18885 18885 1 : 124 62 > buffer_head 2043732 2260200 96 56450 56505 1 : 252 126 > > What's a good solution for this? I'm not ready to move to 2.5, since > stability is pretty important for us, but patching 2.4 should be OK. > The current kernel is RedHat's 2.4.20-18.8 (SMP, BIGMEM; HIGHMEM > option set to 64GB).
Try 2.4-aa kernel - it copes much better with buffer_head bloat in most circumstances.
As long as your drivers are supported, 2.5 is actually mind-bogglingly stable on the whole - more so for large ia32 machines than any 2.4 kernel I've seen (exactly because of lowmem issues).
M.
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