Kernel eating memory, ends up trashing

[seth vidal]

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