Kernel eating memory, ends up trashing
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Sep 19 19:33:45 UTC 2003
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 15:31, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 20:07, seth vidal wrote:
>
> > > 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
>
> 64MB ram, and you've got 12MB (4k * 3002) already in the inode cache.
> The bug we just fixed could easily be causing your problems.
>
well on this system - it's got 1GB of ram.
How should I read that line?
> If those numbers continue to rise directly as performance degrades, then
> that's almost certainly the cause.
I'll keep an eye on it.
Thanks
-sv
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