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Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] vm swappiness with contest
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Con Kolivas wrote:
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> On Saturday 28 Dec 2002 5:16 pm, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > Is there something about the filesystem layer or elsewhere in the kernel
> > that could decay or fragment over time that only a reboot can fix? This
> > would seem to be a bad thing.
> 
> Ok Linus suggested I check slabinfo before and after.
> 
> I ran contest for a few days till I recreated the problem and it did recur. I
> don't know how to interpret the information so I'll just dump it here:
> 


Looks OK.  Could we see /proc/meminfo and /proc/vmstat?

What filesystem are you using?  And what kernel?
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