From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265517AbUHAJsV (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Aug 2004 05:48:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265663AbUHAJsV (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Aug 2004 05:48:21 -0400 Received: from mailout07.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.83]:27335 "EHLO mailout07.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265517AbUHAJsT (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Aug 2004 05:48:19 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 11:47:09 +0200 From: kladit@t-online.de (Klaus Dittrich) To: linux mailing-list Subject: Re: dentry cache leak? Re: rsync out of memory 2.6.8-rc2 Message-ID: <20040801094709.GA1108@xeon2.local.here> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ID: VURwksZTgeP9RkKGIGrnTuGOPF0df1z+hX02kpKGORVQHgiYLSXmYY Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I applied your patch to 2.6.8-rc-bk10 and the system survied three concurrent du -s started each started with a delay. Conspicuous is that memory usage (xosview) does not go above 1.5GB now. Here is a snapshoot of cat/proc/vmstat taken at a time when memory usage has stagnated. -- Klaus nr_dirty 1294 nr_writeback 0 nr_unstable 0 nr_page_table_pages 425 nr_mapped 38811 nr_slab 211923 pgpgin 1157363 pgpgout 150328 pswpin 0 pswpout 0 pgalloc_high 295581 pgalloc_normal 716183 pgalloc_dma 5455 pgfree 1150071 pgactivate 115758 pgdeactivate 74788 pgfault 263245 pgmajfault 1441 pgrefill_high 0 pgrefill_normal 74461 pgrefill_dma 327 pgsteal_high 0 pgsteal_normal 97886 pgsteal_dma 527 pgscan_kswapd_high 0 pgscan_kswapd_normal 92301 pgscan_kswapd_dma 490 pgscan_direct_high 0 pgscan_direct_normal 22869 pgscan_direct_dma 180 pginodesteal 22206 slabs_scanned 6414979 kswapd_steal 79035 kswapd_inodesteal 32158 pageoutrun 535 allocstall 562 pgrotated 5286