Kernel eating memory, ends up trashing
Harald Hoyer
harald at redhat.com
Wed Sep 24 14:13:30 UTC 2003
FYI: kernel <= 2.4.20-20.9 is not affected by the refile_inode bug
Am Fr, 2003-09-19 um 20.58 schrieb Stephen C. Tweedie:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 18:30, Dag Wieers wrote:
>
> > > Exactly which kernel are you running ?
> >
> > 2.4.20-19.9 currently, but I have the same effect with 2.4.20-18 and
> > 2.4.20-20. The graph is exactly the same as it was weeks ago (every 2
> > weeks this happens, only this time the system was responsive enough to
> > return the information ;)
>
> We recently found one problem which could affect the size of the inode
> cache. It's not exactly a leak, because the resources can still be
> reclaimed, but the inodes were filed away in a place where the VM was
> least likely to go looking to reclaim them.
>
> Could you "cat /proc/slabinfo" on the affected systems and see what the
> inode_cache entry looks like, please?
>
> Cheers,
> Stephen
>
>
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