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Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 20:04:19 +0200
From: Frank de Lange <frank@unternet.org>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Severe trashing in 2.4.4
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104291349530.2210-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>; from viro@math.psu.edu on Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:58:52PM -0400
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On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:58:52PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Hmm... I'd say that you also have a leak in kmalloc()'ed stuff - something
> in 1K--2K range. From your logs it looks like the thing never shrinks and
> grows prettu fast...

Same goes for buffer_head:

buffer_head        44236  48520     96 1188 1213    1 :  252  126

quite high I think. 2.4.3 shows this, after about the same time and activity:

buffer_head          891   2880     96   72   72    1 :  252  126

Cheers//Frank

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