Re: Large slab cache in 2.6.1

[Mike Fedyk]

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?


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