Re: [BENCHMARK] vm swappiness with contest

[Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>]

Con Kolivas wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

These numbers _look_ wrong, but ext3 truncate does funny things.
Could you now run a big usemem/fillmem application to try to allocate and
use 200 megs of memory, then resend /proc/meminfo?