From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@drdos.com>,
jmerkey@galt.devicelogics.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
jmerkey@comcast.net
Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1 mempool subsystem sickness
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:56:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040916055650.GE2300@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4148F059.9060100@yahoo.com.au>
On Thu, Sep 16 2004, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> >Jeff
> >
> >Here's the stats from the test of the patch against 2.6.8-rc2 with the
> >patch applied
> >
> >
>
> Scanning stats look good at a quick glance. kswapd doesn't seem to be
> going crazy.
>
> However,
> size-65536 32834 32834 65536 1 16
>
> This slab entry is taking up about 2GB of unreclaimable memory (order-4,
> no less). This must be a leak... does the number continue to rise as
> your system runs?
There's also a huge amount of 16-page bio + vecs in flight:
biovec-16 131340
That would point to a leak as well, most likely.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-16 6:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <091420042058.15928.41475B8000002BA100003E382200763704970A059D0A0306@comcast.net>
2004-09-14 20:32 ` 2.6.8.1 mempool subsystem sickness Jeff V. Merkey
2004-09-14 22:59 ` Nick Piggin
[not found] ` <20040914223122.GA3325@galt.devicelogics.com>
2004-09-14 23:51 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-15 0:51 ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-15 17:27 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-09-15 17:33 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-09-16 1:46 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-16 5:56 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2004-09-08 16:48 jmerkey
2004-09-08 23:05 ` Nick Piggin
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