From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Aucoin@Houston.RR.com, "'Linus Torvalds'" <torvalds@osdl.org>,
"'Tim Schmielau'" <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>,
"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clameter@sgi.com
Subject: Re: la la la la ... swappiness
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:26:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45751F19.9010208@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45751955.8010506@yahoo.com.au>
Nick Piggin wrote:
> Aucoin wrote:
>> Ummm, shm_open, ftruncate, mmap ? Is it a trick question ? The process
>> responsible for initially setting up the shared area doesn't stay
>> resident.
>
> The issue is that the shm pages should show up in the active and
> inactive lists. But they aren't, and you seem to have about 1542524K
> unacconted for. Weird.
>
> Can you try getting the output of /proc/vmstat as well?
Haven't followed along on this thread, but couldn't help notice the
ftruncate there and some similarity to a problem I once experienced
myself. Is ext3 involved? If so, maybe:
http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-mm/2002-11/msg00110.html
is still or again being annoying?
Rene.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-05 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200612030616.kB36GYBs019873@ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com>
2006-12-03 8:08 ` la la la la ... swappiness Andrew Morton
2006-12-03 15:40 ` Aucoin
2006-12-03 20:46 ` Tim Schmielau
2006-12-03 23:56 ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 0:57 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-04 4:56 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-04 5:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-04 17:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-04 10:43 ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-04 14:45 ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 15:04 ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-05 4:02 ` Aucoin
2006-12-05 4:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-05 6:41 ` Aucoin
2006-12-05 7:01 ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-05 7:26 ` Rene Herman [this message]
2006-12-05 13:27 ` Aucoin
2006-12-05 13:49 ` Rene Herman
2006-12-05 13:25 ` Aucoin
2006-12-05 16:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-05 16:59 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 17:41 ` aucoin, Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 18:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-05 18:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-05 19:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-05 20:02 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 20:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-05 20:48 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 20:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-05 21:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 23:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-12 15:12 ` Aucoin
2006-12-05 20:52 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 20:39 ` aucoin, Linus Torvalds
2006-12-04 19:02 Al Boldi
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-04 1:54 Aucoin
2006-12-04 4:59 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-04 7:22 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-12-04 14:39 ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 16:10 ` Chris Friesen
2006-12-04 17:07 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-04 17:49 ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 18:44 ` Tim Schmielau
2006-12-04 21:28 ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 18:46 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-04 21:43 ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 18:06 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-04 18:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-04 18:38 ` Jeffrey Hundstad
2006-12-04 21:25 ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 21:43 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-04 15:55 ` David Lang
2006-12-04 17:42 ` Aucoin
2006-12-03 6:18 Aucoin
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