From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261639AbUBVBUh (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 20:20:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261640AbUBVBUh (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 20:20:37 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([199.26.172.102]:64004 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261639AbUBVBUf (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 20:20:35 -0500 Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 17:20:33 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Mike Fedyk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Large slab cache in 2.6.1 Message-ID: <20040222012033.GC703@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Mike Fedyk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <4037FCDA.4060501@matchmail.com> <4038014E.5070600@matchmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4038014E.5070600@matchmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mike Fedyk wrote: >>I have 1.5 GB of ram in this system that will be a Linux Terminal Server >> (but using Debian & VNC). There's 600MB+ anonymous memory, 600MB+ slab >> cache, and 100MB page cache. That's after turning off swap (it was >> 400MB into swap at the time). On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 05:09:34PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Here's my top slab users: > dentry_cache 585455 763395 256 15 1 : tunables 120 60 > 8 : slabdata 50893 50893 3 > ext3_inode_cache 686837 688135 512 7 1 : tunables 54 27 > 8 : slabdata 98305 98305 0 > buffer_head 34095 78078 48 77 1 : tunables 120 60 > 8 : slabdata 1014 1014 0 > vm_area_struct 42103 44602 64 58 1 : tunables 120 60 > 8 : slabdata 769 769 0 > pte_chain 20964 43740 128 30 1 : tunables 120 60 > 8 : slabdata 1458 1458 0 Similar issue here; I ran out of filp's/whatever shortly after booting. -- wli