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From: "Manfred Spraul" <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: <frank@unternet.org>
Cc: "Alexander Viro" <viro@math.psu.edu>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Severe trashing in 2.4.4
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:06:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001001c0d0f8$bf5ec5e0$5517fea9@local> (raw)

> On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:58:52PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > Hmm... I'd say that you also have a leak in kmalloc()'ed stuff -
> > something in 1K--2K range. From your logs it looks like the
> > thing never shrinks and grows prettu fast...

You could enable STATS in mm/slab.c, then the number of alloc and free
calls would be printed in /proc/slabinfo.

> Yeah, those as well. I kinda guessed they were related...

Could you check /proc/sys/net/core/hot_list_length and skb_head_pool
(not available in /proc, use gdb --core /proc/kcore)? I doubt that this
causes your problems, but the skb_head code uses a special per-cpu
linked list for even faster allocations.

Which network card do you use? Perhaps a bug in the zero-copy code of
the driver?

--
    Manfred


             reply	other threads:[~2001-04-29 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-29 22:06 Manfred Spraul [this message]
2001-04-29 22:14 ` Severe trashing in 2.4.4 Frank de Lange
     [not found] <200104290311.f3T3BeO09131@bellini.kjist.ac.kr>
     [not found] ` <20010429140155.D24432@unternet.org>
     [not found]   ` <3AEC09EE.342FE1C8@kjist.ac.kr>
     [not found]     ` <20010429152414.B11395@athlon.random>
2001-04-29 16:18       ` Frank de Lange
2001-04-29 16:27         ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-29 17:46           ` Frank de Lange
2001-04-29 17:58             ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-29 18:01               ` Frank de Lange
2001-04-29 18:04               ` Frank de Lange
2001-04-30  7:45                 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-04-30  6:15               ` Mike Galbraith
     [not found]         ` <200104291911.XAA04489@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
     [not found]           ` <20010429214853.G11681@unternet.org>
     [not found]             ` <15084.42876.515254.47471@pizda.ninka.net>
2001-04-30  0:24               ` Frank de Lange
2001-04-30  2:00                 ` David S. Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-28 18:24 Frank de Lange

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