From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [long]2.5.44-mm3 UP went into unexpected trashing
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 00:58:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DB7A80C.7D13C750@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3DB7A581.9214EFCC@aitel.hist.no
Helge Hafting wrote:
>
> 2.5.44-mm3 just began trashing. I ran debsums -s in order
> to verify installed packages. This checksums all
> binaries. Things got a little sluggish, but it finished.
>
> Then I started a compile for 2.5.44-mm4, and the machine
> became so hopeless that I stopped the compile. That
> haven't happened before, I have 256M.
>
> Looking at a running vmstat I saw lots of swapping,
> almost no free memory (as usual) but _cache_
> was down to 4004 too!
Memory leak.
> dentry_cache 1174824 1174824 140 41958 41958 1 : 248 124 : 1174824 1174923 41958 0 0 0 276 : 1131352 43467 0 0
160 megabytes of dcache.
Hopefully the rcu fix in -mm4 will cure this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-24 7:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-24 7:47 [long]2.5.44-mm3 UP went into unexpected trashing Helge Hafting
2002-10-24 7:58 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-10-24 8:17 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-24 9:35 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-24 11:45 ` Maneesh Soni
2002-10-24 11:47 ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-10-24 12:38 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-24 15:31 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-24 15:46 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-24 23:35 ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-25 12:27 ` Dipankar Sarma
[not found] ` <3DB98823.67FDBEF3@digeo.com>
[not found] ` <20021025235222.A25786@in.ibm.com>
2002-10-26 15:54 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-29 12:53 ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-10-24 12:46 ` Maneesh Soni
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