From: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
bharata@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dcache leak in 2.6.16-git8 II
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:11:04 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060330064104.GC18387@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603300053.25235.ak@suse.de>
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 12:53:24AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thursday 30 March 2006 00:50, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > It looks that way. Didn't someone else report a sock_inode_cache leak?
>
> Didn't see it.
>
> > > I still got a copy of the /proc in case anybody wants more information.
> >
> > We have this fancy new /proc/slab_allocators now, it might show something
> > interesting. It needs CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK.
>
> I didn't have that enabled unfortunately. I can try it on the next round.
>
> -Andi
>
There is also a new sysctl to drop caches. It is called vm.drop_caches.
It will be interesting to see if it is able to free up some dcache memory
for you.
Balbir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-30 6:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200603270750.28174.ak@suse.de>
[not found] ` <200603271822.28043.ak@suse.de>
[not found] ` <20060327190027.24498e3a.akpm@osdl.org>
2006-03-29 22:26 ` dcache leak in 2.6.16-git8 II Andi Kleen
2006-03-29 22:50 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-29 22:53 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-30 6:41 ` Balbir Singh [this message]
2006-03-30 9:50 ` Al Viro
2006-03-30 10:12 ` Al Viro
2006-03-30 10:36 ` Al Viro
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