From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Aucoin@Houston.RR.com
Cc: "'Linus Torvalds'" <torvalds@osdl.org>,
"'Tim Schmielau'" <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>,
"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clameter@sgi.com
Subject: Re: la la la la ... swappiness
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:01:41 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45751955.8010506@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612050641.kB56f7wY018196@ms-smtp-06.texas.rr.com>
Aucoin wrote:
>>From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:torvalds@osdl.org]
>>I actually suspect you should be _fairly_ close to such a situation
>
>
> We run with min_free_kbytes set around 4k to answer your earlier question.
>
>
>>Louis, exactly how do you allocate that big 1.6GB shared area?
>
>
> Ummm, shm_open, ftruncate, mmap ? Is it a trick question ? The process
> responsible for initially setting up the shared area doesn't stay resident.
The issue is that the shm pages should show up in the active and
inactive lists. But they aren't, and you seem to have about 1542524K
unacconted for. Weird.
Can you try getting the output of /proc/vmstat as well?
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[not found] <200612030616.kB36GYBs019873@ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com>
2006-12-03 8:08 ` la la la la ... swappiness Andrew Morton
2006-12-03 15:40 ` Aucoin
2006-12-03 20:46 ` Tim Schmielau
2006-12-03 23:56 ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 0:57 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-04 4:56 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-04 5:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-04 17:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-04 10:43 ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-04 14:45 ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 15:04 ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-05 4:02 ` Aucoin
2006-12-05 4:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-05 6:41 ` Aucoin
2006-12-05 7:01 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-12-05 7:26 ` Rene Herman
2006-12-05 13:27 ` Aucoin
2006-12-05 13:49 ` Rene Herman
2006-12-05 13:25 ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 19:02 Al Boldi
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-04 1:54 Aucoin
2006-12-04 4:59 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-04 7:22 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-12-04 14:39 ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 16:10 ` Chris Friesen
2006-12-04 17:07 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-04 17:49 ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 18:44 ` Tim Schmielau
2006-12-04 21:28 ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 18:46 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-04 21:43 ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 18:06 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-04 18:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-04 18:38 ` Jeffrey Hundstad
2006-12-04 21:25 ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 21:43 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-04 15:55 ` David Lang
2006-12-04 17:42 ` Aucoin
2006-12-03 6:18 Aucoin
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