Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262391AbVAZIkX (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 03:40:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262392AbVAZIkX (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 03:40:23 -0500 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:28551 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262391AbVAZIkR (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 03:40:17 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:40:05 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: Andrew Morton Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, alexn@dsv.su.se, kas@fi.muni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lennert.vanalboom@ugent.be Subject: Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1? Message-ID: <20050126084005.GB2751@suse.de> References: <20050123091154.GC16648@suse.de> <20050123011918.295db8e8.akpm@osdl.org> <20050123095608.GD16648@suse.de> <20050123023248.263daca9.akpm@osdl.org> <1106528219.867.22.camel@boxen> <20050124204659.GB19242@suse.de> <20050124125649.35f3dafd.akpm@osdl.org> <20050126080152.GA2751@suse.de> <20050126001113.30933eef.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050126001113.30933eef.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 955 Lines: 25 On Wed, Jan 26 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > But the 2.6.11-rcX vm is still very > > screwy, to get something close to nice and smooth behaviour I have to > > run a fillmem every now and then to reclaim used memory. > > Can you provide more details? Hmm not really, I just seem to have a very large piece of non-cache/buffer memory that seems reluctant to shrink on light memory pressure. This makes the box feel sluggish, if I force reclaim by running fillmem and swapping on/off again, it feels much better. I should mention that this is with 2.6.bk + andreas oom patches that he asked me to test. I can try 2.6.11-rc2-bkX if you think I should. -- Jens Axboe - 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/