From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Andreas Grimm <agrimm61@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VM - a plenty of inactive memory
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:32:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FCD37B.3040103@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.R/QDJx+PTjNDKcqKW25clMhQ6tg@ifi.uio.no>
Andreas Grimm wrote:
> Hi Johannes,
>
> i know this. But why the kernel locks that memory for a so long time
> (2 days now)? Is there a way to enforce the reclaiming? And how can i
> find out, which process owns that memory. The problem is, that i can't
> accept, that the free memory fell down to 50MB, when i have 24GB in
> the nirvana. The system was recently very close to the awkward
> situation to swap to disk, and i bet it will do so in the next few
> days, because it happened before. Unintelligible, if one got that much
> ram.
>
> Bye, Andreas
The memory should not be locked. If the kernel has no reason to reclaim
the memory, it won't, though.
next parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-09 14:30 UTC|newest]
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2008-04-09 14:32 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2008-04-09 9:13 VM - a plenty of inactive memory Andreas Grimm
2008-04-09 13:10 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-04-09 13:57 ` Andreas Grimm
2008-04-09 14:15 ` Dan Noe
2008-04-09 15:01 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-04-09 16:28 ` Andreas Grimm
2008-04-09 18:08 ` Andreas Grimm
2008-04-09 19:56 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-04-09 20:05 ` Andreas Grimm
2008-04-11 17:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-11 13:13 ` Andreas Grimm
2008-04-11 14:34 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
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