From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261648AbUBVCkm (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:40:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261645AbUBVCkl (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:40:41 -0500 Received: from adsl-63-194-240-129.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.240.129]:35077 "EHLO mikef-fw.mikef-fw.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261648AbUBVCkN (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:40:13 -0500 Message-ID: <4038168C.1000404@matchmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 18:40:12 -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: William Lee Irwin III CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Large slab cache in 2.6.1 References: <4037FCDA.4060501@matchmail.com> <4038014E.5070600@matchmail.com> <20040222012033.GC703@holomorphy.com> <40380DE2.4030702@matchmail.com> <20040222021710.GD703@holomorphy.com> In-Reply-To: <20040222021710.GD703@holomorphy.com> 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 William Lee Irwin III wrote: > William Lee Irwin III wrote: > >>>Similar issue here; I ran out of filp's/whatever shortly after booting. > > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 06:03:14PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > >>So Nick Piggin's VM patches won't help with this? > > > I think they're in -mm, and I'd call the vfs slab cache shrinking stuff > a vfs issue anyway because there's no actual VM content to it, apart > from the code in question being driven by the VM. Hmm, that's news to me. Maybe that's a newer patch. I haven't been reading the list much for the last month or so... Nick had a patch that was supposed to help 2.6 with low memory situations to bring it on a par with 2.4 in that respect. ISTR "active recycling" being mentioned about it... I also did a find / -xdev -type f -exec cat "{}" \; > /dev/null 2>&1 with no swap and my page cache didn't get any bigger and slab didn't shrink. :( Is there anything in 2.6.3 in respect to IDE, MD Raid{1,5}, knfsd, or athlons I should worry about in upgrading from 2.6.1? Thanks, Mike