Re: Linux 2.4.19-pre3-ac1

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 07:54:12AM +0200, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> Hi,
> Just a question, does the commited as field specify how much memory has 
> actually been *allocated* as per requests, but not necesserily in use? 
> This one is my home box, looks a bit crazy don't you think? The box has 
> about ~120 processes right now, heavy X session (2000x2000@32 virtual, 
> KDE2 with lots of eye candy), two kernel builds in the background and 
> cdrecord. 
> 
> Linux version 2.4.19-pre2-ac3 (zwane@montezuma) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 
> (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #2 Sat Mar 9 20:44:38 SAST 2002
> 
>         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> Mem:  527527936 519610368  7917568        0 16871424 398352384
> Swap: 542785536 73433088 469352448
> MemTotal:       515164 kB
> MemFree:          7732 kB
> MemShared:           0 kB
> Buffers:         16476 kB
> Cached:         380044 kB
> SwapCached:       8972 kB
> Active:         262252 kB
> Inact_dirty:    209392 kB
> Inact_clean:     11248 kB
> Inact_target:    96576 kB
> HighTotal:           0 kB
> HighFree:            0 kB
> LowTotal:       515164 kB
> LowFree:          7732 kB
> SwapTotal:      530064 kB
> SwapFree:       458352 kB
> Committed AS:  8060848 kB
> 
> Things could get interesting if everyone touches their pages ;)

What's your uptime?

I've been able to get "Committed AS" to just grow and grow with a kernel
compile within a while loop after a couple days (pii 350, so faster machines
should show that sooner...).

When you get a chance, go into single user mode and see if "Committed AS"
goes down to a sane level.  If not, you're seeing what I am.

I've seen it without highmem, with and without smp, etc. more info available
upon request.

Mike