From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267926AbUHKDrV (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:47:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267921AbUHKDrV (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:47:21 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:64172 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267926AbUHKDqn (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:46:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 20:46:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Gene Heskett cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Subject: Re: Possible dcache BUG In-Reply-To: <200408102342.12792.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Message-ID: References: <20040808113930.24ae0273.akpm@osdl.org> <200408100012.08945.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <200408102342.12792.gene.heskett@verizon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Linus, I hate to be a killjoy on this, but I just had to reboot again, Note that this is something else going on. The "obvious one-liner" can be an issue only with certain special XFS stuff or knfsd, neither of which you have. > it was killing processes, even first the shells I had open then kmail > and X this time, but with nothing in the logs, and when X had quit, a > top in the launching shell reported nearly 250 megs free with nothing > in the swap. As Andrew already requested, the only way for us to figure out what is wrong is to get output from you on where the memory has gone. Notably, the output of "/proc/meminfo" and "/proc/slabinfo". "ps axm" helps too. If it is slow, the above will still work. Just save them away and reboot. Linus