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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [long]2.5.44-mm3 UP went into unexpected trashing
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 00:58:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DB7A80C.7D13C750@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3DB7A581.9214EFCC@aitel.hist.no

Helge Hafting wrote:
> 
> 2.5.44-mm3 just began trashing.  I ran debsums -s in order
> to verify installed packages.  This checksums all
> binaries.  Things got a little sluggish, but it finished.
> 
> Then I started a compile for 2.5.44-mm4, and the machine
> became so hopeless that I stopped the compile.  That
> haven't happened before, I have 256M.
> 
> Looking at a running vmstat I saw lots of swapping,
> almost no free memory (as usual) but _cache_
> was down to 4004 too!

Memory leak.


> dentry_cache      1174824 1174824    140 41958 41958    1 :  248  124 : 1174824 1174923 41958    0    0    0  276 : 1131352  43467      0      0

160 megabytes of dcache.

Hopefully the rcu fix in -mm4 will cure this.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-24  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-24  7:47 [long]2.5.44-mm3 UP went into unexpected trashing Helge Hafting
2002-10-24  7:58 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-10-24  8:17   ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-24  9:35     ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-24 11:45     ` Maneesh Soni
2002-10-24 11:47       ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-10-24 12:38         ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-24 15:31           ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-24 15:46             ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-24 23:35               ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-25 12:27                 ` Dipankar Sarma
     [not found]                   ` <3DB98823.67FDBEF3@digeo.com>
     [not found]                     ` <20021025235222.A25786@in.ibm.com>
2002-10-26 15:54                       ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-29 12:53                         ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-10-24 12:46         ` Maneesh Soni

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