Re: v3.4-rc2 out-of-memory problems (was Re: 3.4-rc1 sticks-and-crashs)

[Sven Joachim]

On 2012-04-09 18:33 +0200, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On 04/09/2012 12:19 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2012-04-09 17:57 +0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/09/2012 03:04 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>>
>>>> While I did not experience any crashes or instabilities (yet?), I'm also
>>>> seeing memory leaks.  On a system started this morning, with hardly
>>>> anything running:
>>>
>>>> where I would expect no more than 50 MB used, 400 MB are actually in use:
>>>>
>>>> ,----
>>>> | $ free
>>>> |              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>>>> | Mem:       3348400    1849712    1498688          0     328960    1119180
>>>> | -/+ buffers/cache:     401572    2946828
>>>> | Swap:      3719040          0    3719040
>>>> `----
>>>
>>> Do you see any big memory users in /proc/meminfo or in
>>> /proc/slabinfo?
>>
>> Attaching these files, since I can't really make anything out of the
>> latter.  Note that I started a few memory hogs (X, Firefox, Emacs with
>> Gnus), so overall memory footprint has grown to 768 MB.
>
> Looks like the "missing" 400MB is all in filesystem caches,
> specifically the dentry cache, the ext4 inode cache and
> buffer heads.

Then why does free(1) report those in the "-/+ buffers/cache:" line?  It
did not do this with earlier kernels, AFAIK.

Cheers,
       Sven
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