Re: drop_caches ...

From: Lukas Hejtmanek
Date: Wed Mar 04 2009 - 07:38:40 EST


Hello,

> So you don't have lots of mapped pages(Mapped=51M) or tmpfs files. It's
> strange to me that there are so many undroppable cached pages(Cached=359M),
> and most of them lie out of the LRU queue(Active+Inactive file=53M)...

> Anyone have better clues on these 'hidden' pages?

I think he is simply using Intel driver + GEM + UXA = TONS of drm mm objects
in tmpfs which is 'hidden' unless you have /proc/filecache to see them.

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Lukáš Hejtmánek
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