From: Con Kolivas <conman@kolivas.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] vm swappiness with contest
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 17:24:05 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200212311724.05416.conman@kolivas.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E11347B.2C8195D1@digeo.com>
On Tuesday 31 Dec 2002 5:08 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Con Kolivas wrote:
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> > On Saturday 28 Dec 2002 5:16 pm, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > > Is there something about the filesystem layer or elsewhere in the
> > > kernel that could decay or fragment over time that only a reboot can
> > > fix? This would seem to be a bad thing.
> >
> > Ok Linus suggested I check slabinfo before and after.
> >
> > I ran contest for a few days till I recreated the problem and it did
> > recur. I don't know how to interpret the information so I'll just dump it
> > here:
>
> Looks OK. Could we see /proc/meminfo and /proc/vmstat?
meminfo:
MemTotal: 257296 kB
MemFree: 47468 kB
Buffers: 27028 kB
Cached: 7480 kB
SwapCached: 272 kB
Active: 154968 kB
Inactive: 42756 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 257296 kB
LowFree: 47468 kB
SwapTotal: 4194272 kB
SwapFree: 4193816 kB
Dirty: 1116 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
Mapped: 3740 kB
Slab: 8564 kB
Committed_AS: 6580 kB
PageTables: 196 kB
ReverseMaps: 1381
vmstat:
nr_dirty 240
nr_writeback 0
nr_pagecache 8712
nr_page_table_pages 49
nr_reverse_maps 1383
nr_mapped 937
nr_slab 2140
pgpgin 254170865
pgpgout 637037580
pswpin 5126123
pswpout 25405883
pgalloc 510309571
pgfree 510321474
pgactivate 486194881
pgdeactivate 503024404
pgfault 693111528
pgmajfault 1013600
pgscan 1521783411
pgrefill 939783846
pgsteal 146188093
kswapd_steal 105403604
pageoutrun 377963
allocstall 1408123
pgrotated 45339615
>
> What filesystem are you using? And what kernel?
ext3 on 2.5.53-mm1
Con
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-31 6:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-27 5:46 [BENCHMARK] vm swappiness with contest Con Kolivas
2002-12-27 10:00 ` Con Kolivas
2002-12-28 6:16 ` Con Kolivas
2002-12-28 6:26 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-28 8:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-31 5:58 ` Con Kolivas
2002-12-31 6:08 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-31 6:24 ` Con Kolivas [this message]
2002-12-31 6:37 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-31 6:57 ` Con Kolivas
2002-12-31 7:08 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-31 7:20 ` Con Kolivas
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2002-12-27 13:13 Paolo Ciarrocchi
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