2009-03-30 00:15:39

by Dimitris Zilaskos

Subject: peak vnodes <number>

After moving to 2.6.29 the following started showing up in kernel logs.
What does it mean?


uname -an
Linux tassadar 2.6.29 #1 Sat Mar 28 22:52:51 EET 2009 i686 unknown unknown
GNU/Linux


dmesg|grep peak|head
peak vnodes: 4164
peak vnodes: 4165
peak vnodes: 4166
peak vnodes: 4167
peak vnodes: 4168
peak vnodes: 4169
peak vnodes: 4170
peak vnodes: 4171
peak vnodes: 4172
peak vnodes: 4173

dmesg|grep peak|tail
peak vnodes: 10230
peak vnodes: 10231
peak vnodes: 10232
peak vnodes: 10233
peak vnodes: 10234
peak vnodes: 10235
peak vnodes: 10236
peak vnodes: 10237
peak vnodes: 10238
peak vnodes: 10239


dmesg|grep peak|wc -l
6076


Cheers,

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2009-03-30 12:24:18

by Andi Kleen

Subject: Re: peak vnodes <number>

Dimitris Zilaskos <[email protected]> writes:

> After moving to 2.6.29 the following started showing up in kernel
> logs. What does it mean?
>
>
> uname -an
> Linux tassadar 2.6.29 #1 Sat Mar 28 22:52:51 EET 2009 i686 unknown
> unknown GNU/Linux
>
>
> dmesg|grep peak|head
> peak vnodes: 4164

Grepping doesn't find such a message in 2.6.29. Are you sure it's not
some out of tree module?

-Andi

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2009-03-30 12:28:04

by Dimitris Zilaskos

Subject: Re: peak vnodes <number>

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Dimitris Zilaskos <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> After moving to 2.6.29 the following started showing up in kernel
>> logs. What does it mean?
>>
>>
>> uname -an
>> Linux tassadar 2.6.29 #1 Sat Mar 28 22:52:51 EET 2009 i686 unknown
>> unknown GNU/Linux
>>
>>
>> dmesg|grep peak|head
>> peak vnodes: 4164
>
> Grepping doesn't find such a message in 2.6.29. Are you sure it's not
> some out of tree module?
>
> -Andi


Thank you for your answer. I use openafs, so I guess it could be their
module. I will foward my question there.


Cheers,

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