Re: la la la la ... swappiness

Rene Herman
2006-12-05T07:27:17Z

Nick Piggin wrote:

> Aucoin wrote:

>> 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?

Haven't followed along on this thread, but couldn't help notice the
ftruncate there and some similarity to a problem I once experienced
myself. Is ext3 involved? If so, maybe:

http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-mm/2002-11/msg00110.html

is still or again being annoying?

Rene.