From: Leigh Orf <orf@mailbag.com>
To: Ken Brownfield <brownfld@irridia.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.16 memory badness (reproducible)
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 13:54:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200112081854.fB8IsIr01485@orp.orf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Dec 2001 09:56:20 CST." <20011208095620.C1179@asooo.flowerfire.com>
Ken Brownfield wrote:
| This parallels what I'm seeing -- perhaps inode/dentry cache
| bloat is causing the memory issue (which mimics if not _is_
| a memory leak) _and_ my kswapd thrashing? It fits both the
| situation you report and what I'm seeing with I/O across a
| large number of files (inodes) -- updatedb, smb, NFS, etc.
|
| I think Andrea was on to this issue, so I'm hoping his work
| will help. Have you tried an -aa kernel or an aa patch onto
| a 2.4.17-pre4 to see how the kernel's behavior changes?
|
| --
| Ken.
| brownfld@irridia.com
I get the exact same behavior with 2.4.17-pre4-aa1 - many applications
abort with ENOMEM after updatedb (filling the buffer and cache). Is
there another kernel/patch I should try?
Leigh Orf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-08 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-08 15:39 Leigh Orf
2001-12-08 15:56 ` Ken Brownfield
2001-12-08 18:54 ` Leigh Orf [this message]
2001-12-08 19:41 ` Andrew Morton
2001-12-08 20:04 ` Leigh Orf
2001-12-08 21:42 ` Leigh Orf
2001-12-08 22:24 ` Leigh Orf
2001-12-11 19:07 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-12-11 22:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-11 22:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-12-12 14:51 ` Leigh Orf
2001-12-18 14:27 ` Holger Lubitz
2001-12-11 20:04 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
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