From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:14:25 -0500 From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [patch 00/19] VM pageout scalability improvements Message-ID: <20080109221425.23e200c9@bree.surriel.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20080102224144.885671949@redhat.com> <20080102224450.585bf956@bree.surriel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernelporg, linux-mm@kvack.org, lee.schermerhorn@hp.com List-ID: On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:39:15 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > Running a 16000 MB fillmem on my 16GB test box (where slub > > eats up unexplainable amounts of memory so the test gets about > > 14GB RSS and 1.5GB in swap). > > SLUB eats up process memory? Slab allocations are not charged to the > process. But there is new code in mm so there could be a problem > somewhere. Could you give me more details? IIRC /proc/meminfo reported that there were a few hundred MB in slab, despite the system only running the few daemons that get started by default and my one fillmem process. I'll get you more details once /proc/slabinfo works again. -- All rights reversed. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org