Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263159AbUD2Dyo (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:54:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263166AbUD2Dyo (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:54:44 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:50911 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263159AbUD2Dym (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:54:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:54:23 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: busterbcook@yahoo.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: pdflush eating a lot of CPU on heavy NFS I/O Message-Id: <20040428205423.19bc7685.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20040427230203.1e4693ac.akpm@osdl.org> <20040428124809.418e005d.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1236 Lines: 36 Brent Cook wrote: > > Here are memory stats for the same machine. The other machine's stats > are similar; there doesn't appear to be anything out of the ordinary and > its not even touching swap if these numbers are to be believed. > > busterb@snowball2:~$ cat /proc/meminfo > MemTotal: 256992 kB > MemFree: 139700 kB > Buffers: 36464 kB > Cached: 61516 kB > SwapCached: 0 kB > Active: 50536 kB > Inactive: 51672 kB > HighTotal: 0 kB > HighFree: 0 kB > LowTotal: 256992 kB > LowFree: 139700 kB > SwapTotal: 514040 kB > SwapFree: 514040 kB > Dirty: 1876 kB > Writeback: 0 kB > Mapped: 8552 kB > Slab: 10924 kB > Committed_AS: 14612 kB > PageTables: 356 kB > VmallocTotal: 778164 kB > VmallocUsed: 2936 kB > VmallocChunk: 774708 kB Was this captured while pdflush was misbehaving? - 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/