Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 01:45:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 01:45:54 -0400 Received: from franka.aracnet.com ([216.99.193.44]:59366 "EHLO franka.aracnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 01:45:53 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:49:59 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Reply-To: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Andrew Morton cc: Rik van Riel , linux-kernel , linux-mm mailing list Subject: Re: ZONE_NORMAL exhaustion (dcache slab) Message-ID: <2629107186.1035240598@[10.10.2.3]> In-Reply-To: <3DB4D20A.8A579516@digeo.com> References: <3DB4D20A.8A579516@digeo.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.2 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 889 Lines: 26 > Oh it's reproduceable OK. Just run > > make-teeny-files 7 7 Excellent - thanks for that ... will try it. > Maybe you didn't cat /dev/sda2 for long enough? Well, it's a multi-gigabyte partition. IIRC, I just ran it until it died with "input/output error" ... which I assumed at the time was the end of the partition, but it should be able to find that without error, so maybe it just ran out of ZONE_NORMAL ;-) > Perhaps we need to multiply the slab cache scanning pressure by the > slab occupancy. That's simple to do. That'd make a lot of sense (to me, at least). I presume you mean occupancy on a per-slab basis, not global. M. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/