From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C61A900125 for ; Mon, 2 May 2011 10:37:27 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: mmotm 2011-04-29 - wonky VmRSS and VmHWM values after swapping In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 May 2011 20:26:54 EDT." <49683.1304296014@localhost> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <201104300002.p3U02Ma2026266@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <49683.1304296014@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1304347041_5428P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 10:37:22 -0400 Message-ID: <8185.1304347042@localhost> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org --==_Exmh_1304347041_5428P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sun, 01 May 2011 20:26:54 EDT, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu said: > On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:26:16 PDT, akpm@linux-foundation.org said: > > The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2011-04-29-16-25 has been uploaded to > > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ > > Dell Latitude E6500 laptop, Core2 Due P8700, 4G RAM, 2G swap.Z86_64 kernel. > > I was running a backup of the system to an external USB hard drive. Is a red herring. Am seeing it again, after only 20 minutes of uptime, and so far I've only gotten 1.2G or so into the 4G ram (2.5G still free), and never touched swap yet. Aha! I have a reproducer (found while composing this note). /bin/su will reliably trigger it (4 tries out of 4, launching from a bash shell that itself has sane VmRSS and VmHWM values). So it's a specific code sequence doing it (probably one syscall doing something quirky). Now if I could figure out how to make strace look at the VmRSS after each syscall, or get gdb to do similar. Any suggestions? Am open to perf/other solutions as well, if anybody has one handy... --==_Exmh_1304347041_5428P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFNvsGhcC3lWbTT17ARAtCbAKCWm//9w+BymVQxhZnY9g2ApPDh9QCeMGDq trcg1I8d5c4Kt6lWqewriEE= =gk5i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1304347041_5428P-- -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org