Re: Large slab cache in 2.6.1

Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22T02:03:17Z

William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> Mike Fedyk wrote:
>
>>>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).
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 05:09:34PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
>
>>Here's my top slab users:
>>dentry_cache 585455 763395 256 15 1 : tunables 120 60
>> 8 : slabdata 50893 50893 3
>>ext3_inode_cache 686837 688135 512 7 1 : tunables 54 27
>> 8 : slabdata 98305 98305 0
>>buffer_head 34095 78078 48 77 1 : tunables 120 60
>> 8 : slabdata 1014 1014 0
>>vm_area_struct 42103 44602 64 58 1 : tunables 120 60
>> 8 : slabdata 769 769 0
>>pte_chain 20964 43740 128 30 1 : tunables 120 60
>> 8 : slabdata 1458 1458 0
>
>
> Similar issue here; I ran out of filp's/whatever shortly after booting.

So Nick Piggin's VM patches won't help with this?