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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@ics.muni.cz>
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc8 big regression in VM
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:05:24 +0900 (JST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081215110231.00DF.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081215011645.GA9707@localhost>

Hi Lukas

(cc to linux-mm)

> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 11:58:15AM +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 09:21:15AM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > > I cannot reproduce it on 2.6.28-rc7, compiling 2.6.28-rc8...
> > > 
> > > # free; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; free
> > >              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> > > Mem:          1940        109       1831          0          0         42
> > > -/+ buffers/cache:         66       1873
> > > Swap:            0          0          0
> > >              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> > > Mem:          1940         62       1877          0          0          7
> > > -/+ buffers/cache:         55       1884
> > > Swap:            0          0          0
> > > 
> > > > once the whole memory is eaten by the cache, the system is pretty unusable.
> > > 
> > > What's your kconfig?
> > 
> > attached.

I also don't reproduce your problem.
Could you get output of "cat /proc/meminfo", not only free command?




  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-15  2:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-12 18:38 Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-12-13  1:21 ` Wu Fengguang
2008-12-13  9:58   ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-12-13 14:02     ` Wu Fengguang
2008-12-16 21:08       ` Bill Davidsen
2008-12-15  1:16     ` Wu Fengguang
2008-12-15  2:05       ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
2008-12-15  9:53         ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-12-15 10:56           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-12-15  9:44       ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-12-16  4:59         ` Wu Fengguang
     [not found]           ` <20081216195219.GA4480@ics.muni.cz>
2008-12-17 12:27             ` Wu Fengguang
2008-12-17 12:33               ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-12-17 12:44                 ` Wu Fengguang
2008-12-17 12:49                   ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-12-17 13:02                     ` Wu Fengguang
2008-12-25 10:50                     ` Wu Fengguang
2008-12-25 10:58                       ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-12-25 11:18                         ` Wu Fengguang

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