From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262772AbUBZLT1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 06:19:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262774AbUBZLT1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 06:19:27 -0500 Received: from server2.netdiscount.de ([217.13.198.2]:41381 "EHLO server2.netdiscount.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262772AbUBZLTY (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 06:19:24 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:19:12 +0100 From: Christian Leber To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.25 - large inode_cache Message-ID: <20040226111912.GB4554@core.home> References: <20040226013313.GN29776@unthought.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040226013313.GN29776@unthought.net> X-Location: Europe, Germany, Mannheim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux (sid) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:33:14AM +0100, Jakob Oestergaard wrote: > Besides, after a few days of running, the machine will use about 100MB > of memory for cache, 100MB for buffers, about 100MB for userspace, and > the remaining 600-700 MB of memory for inode_cache and dentry_cache. I have the same problem (it's an dual PIII NFS fileserver with promise sx6000 raid, 320 GB ext3 filesystem and only 512 MB Ram). After only 2 days running the bloatmeter output looks like: inode_cache: 336585KB 357234KB 94.21 dentry_cache: 50305KB 56523KB 88.99 size-32: 1516KB 1695KB 89.46 free output is this: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 515980 506464 9516 0 2272 19204 -/+ buffers/cache: 484988 30992 Swap: 1951856 7992 1943864 Regards Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est." (Aurelius Augustinus) Translation: