Re: Large slab cache in 2.6.1

William Lee Irwin III
2004-02-22T01:20:37Z

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.

-- wli