From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261635AbUBVAug (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 19:50:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261636AbUBVAug (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 19:50:36 -0500 Received: from adsl-63-194-240-129.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.240.129]:27653 "EHLO mikef-fw.mikef-fw.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261635AbUBVAuf (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 19:50:35 -0500 Message-ID: <4037FCDA.4060501@matchmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:50:34 -0800 From: Mike Fedyk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Large slab cache in 2.6.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Actually 2.6.1-bk2-nfsd-stalefh-nfsd-lofft (two nfsd patches that already made it into 2.6.2 and 2.6.3) http://www.matchmail.com/stats/lrrd/matchmail.com/srv-lnx2600.matchmail.com-memory.html 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). Turning off the swap only shrank my page cache, and my slab didn't shrink one bit. I'm sending this email because this is a production server, and I'd like to know if any patches after 2.6.1 would help this problem. Thanks, Mike