From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: ZONE_NORMAL exhaustion (dcache slab)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:33:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <309670000.1035236015@flay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DB472B6.BC5B8924@digeo.com>
>> Nope, kept OOMing and killing everything .
>
> Something broke.
Even I worked that out ;-)
> Blockdevices only use ZONE_NORMAL for their pagecache. That cat will
> selectively put pressure on the normal zone (and DMA zone, of course).
Ah, I recall that now. That's fundamentally screwed.
>> Will try again. Presumably "find /" should do it? ;-)
>
> You must have a lot of files.
Nothing too ridiculous. Will try find on a small subset repeatedly and see if
it keeps growing first - maybe that'll show a leak.
Thanks,
M.
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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: ZONE_NORMAL exhaustion (dcache slab)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:33:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <309670000.1035236015@flay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DB472B6.BC5B8924@digeo.com>
>> Nope, kept OOMing and killing everything .
>
> Something broke.
Even I worked that out ;-)
> Blockdevices only use ZONE_NORMAL for their pagecache. That cat will
> selectively put pressure on the normal zone (and DMA zone, of course).
Ah, I recall that now. That's fundamentally screwed.
>> Will try again. Presumably "find /" should do it? ;-)
>
> You must have a lot of files.
Nothing too ridiculous. Will try find on a small subset repeatedly and see if
it keeps growing first - maybe that'll show a leak.
Thanks,
M.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-21 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-21 20:40 ZONE_NORMAL exhaustion (dcache slab) Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-21 20:40 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-21 21:13 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-21 21:13 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-21 21:16 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-21 21:16 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-21 21:33 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-21 21:33 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-21 21:33 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2002-10-21 21:33 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-21 21:49 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-21 21:49 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-21 22:30 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-21 22:30 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-21 22:53 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-21 22:53 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 0:31 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22 0:31 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22 3:39 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 3:39 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 3:53 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22 3:53 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22 4:20 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 4:20 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 5:49 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22 5:49 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22 6:21 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 6:21 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 16:13 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22 16:13 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-24 11:35 ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-10-24 11:35 ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-10-24 14:28 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-24 14:28 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22 16:33 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-22 16:33 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-22 16:54 ` ARP address resolving in kernel Steffen Persvold
2002-10-22 17:05 ` ZONE_NORMAL exhaustion (dcache slab) Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 17:05 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 16:21 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-22 16:21 ` Dipankar Sarma
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