On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 14:58, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 18:30, Dag Wieers wrote:
Exactly which kernel are you running ?
2.4.20-19.9 currently, but I have the same effect with 2.4.20-18 and 2.4.20-20. The graph is exactly the same as it was weeks ago (every 2 weeks this happens, only this time the system was responsive enough to return the information ;)
We recently found one problem which could affect the size of the inode cache. It's not exactly a leak, because the resources can still be reclaimed, but the inodes were filed away in a place where the VM was least likely to go looking to reclaim them.
Could you "cat /proc/slabinfo" on the affected systems and see what the inode_cache entry looks like, please?
I'm seeing this behavior under 7.3 using kernel 2.4.20-18.7 here is inode_cache from that machine:
inode_cache 20400 21014 512 3002 3002 1
Is this related to this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100680
at all?
-sv