Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261884AbVEKCtm (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 22:49:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261885AbVEKCtm (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 22:49:42 -0400 Received: from imap.infopop.com ([63.251.4.15]:58150 "EHLO imap.infopop.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261884AbVEKCti (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 22:49:38 -0400 Message-ID: <428172BB.60704@unixgrrl.net> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 19:49:31 -0700 From: liz Reply-To: liz@unixgrrl.net User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050331) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: kernel cache and NFS X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1553 Lines: 52 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, I can't seem to find an answer to this issue anywhere. A box running a 2.4.21 smp kernel is holding 2G of ram in the system cache, despite being heavily into swap: ~ total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 4224462848 4206002176 18460672 0 41304064 2938032128 Swap: 2146754560 1073373184 1073381376 MemTotal: 4125452 kB MemFree: 18028 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 40336 kB Cached: 2095616 kB <---- 2G disk cache SwapCached: 773556 kB Active: 3186300 kB ActiveAnon: 1707252 kB ActiveCache: 1479048 kB Inact_dirty: 607944 kB Inact_laundry: 117300 kB Inact_clean: 65180 kB Inact_target: 795344 kB HighTotal: 3276224 kB HighFree: 1200 kB LowTotal: 849228 kB LowFree: 16828 kB SwapTotal: 2096440 kB <-- 1G swap usage SwapFree: 1048224 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB Why is this memoy being held in the disk cache? Is this perhaps an NFS issue? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCgXK7lt/irWun80cRAqPJAKCJZBt6z4MJmkXGOJ1TNKbRJ2VDOQCeJIAU VXk/mPxV0otv9C7VZ7t/NwA= =ZmEs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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/