From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Bongani Hlope <bonganilinux@mweb.co.za>
Cc: davem@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, manfred@colorfullife.com
Subject: Re: 2.5.70-mm1 Strangeness
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 12:58:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030530125841.61a12a9c.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030530212559.76f0d1ea.bonganilinux@mweb.co.za>
Bongani Hlope <bonganilinux@mweb.co.za> wrote:
>
> So it seems like CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC was causing the problem.
hm, okay. Thanks for your help in working all that out.
Everything should have just balanced itself out - nothing in the memory
reclaim area cares or knows about the actual size of the objects.
You could run out of memory simply because the things are 20x bigger, but
only if they were pinned - say, a larger number of files open, or a large
number of files in ramfs or sysfs.
But from your last-gasp slabinfo the three caches seem to be of a
reasonable size. It's a bit of a mystery.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-30 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-29 20:16 Bongani Hlope
[not found] ` <20030529135541.7c926896.akpm@digeo.com>
2003-05-30 0:11 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-30 0:51 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-30 0:58 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-30 4:12 ` Bongani Hlope
2003-05-30 5:02 ` Manfred Spraul
2003-05-30 19:25 ` Bongani Hlope
2003-05-30 19:58 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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