From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Large slab cache in 2.6.1
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 18:36:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040222023638.GA13840@dingdong.cryptoapps.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4037FCDA.4060501@matchmail.com>
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:50:34PM -0800, 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).
I have a similar annoying problem... I have a machine which is almost
always idle (single user work station type thing) with 1.5GB of RAM
and I end up with 850M in slab!
For me the main problem seems to be driven by dentry_cache itself
bloating up really big and those entries keep fs-specific memory
pinned.
Forcing paging will push this down to acceptable levels but it's a
really irritating solution --- I'm still trying to think of a better
way to stop the dentries from using such a disproportionate amount of
memory.
I'm played with -mm kernels and various patches out there... nothing
seems to put enough pressure on the slab unless I force paging.
akpm, riel --- any (more) ideas here?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-22 2:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-22 0:50 Large slab cache in 2.6.1 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 1:09 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 1:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-02-22 2:03 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 2:17 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-02-22 2:38 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 2:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-02-22 2:40 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 2:58 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 2:33 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 2:46 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 2:54 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 2:36 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2004-02-22 3:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-22 3:11 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-22 3:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-22 3:29 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-22 3:31 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-22 4:01 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 4:10 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 4:30 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 4:41 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 5:37 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 5:44 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-22 5:52 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 5:50 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 6:01 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 6:17 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-22 6:35 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 6:57 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-22 7:20 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 8:36 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-22 9:13 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 0:16 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-23 0:26 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 0:34 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-23 0:46 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 0:54 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-23 1:00 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 1:06 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 6:45 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 6:58 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 7:20 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 6:09 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-22 17:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-23 0:29 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 6:15 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-22 16:08 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-02-22 17:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-23 3:45 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 21:13 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-02-22 14:03 ` Ed Tomlinson
2004-02-23 2:28 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-23 3:33 ` Ed Tomlinson
2004-02-22 3:21 ` Mike Fedyk
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2004-02-22 11:00 Manfred Spraul
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