Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030292AbWBNAxG (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:53:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030313AbWBNAxG (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:53:06 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:45264 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030292AbWBNAxF (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:53:05 -0500 Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:51:59 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Alexandre Buisse Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc2-mm1 Message-Id: <20060213165159.28710ebf.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060214005701.GA26814@ubik> References: <20060207220627.345107c3.akpm@osdl.org> <20060214005701.GA26814@ubik> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (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: 1860 Lines: 47 Alexandre Buisse wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 00:47:15 +0100, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc2/2.6.16-rc2-mm1/ > > > > Hi, > > I have been using 2.6.16-rc2-mm1 for a couple of days on my laptop and > tonight it was particularly slow. After shutting down firefox, X and > pretty much every user application, free was still saying: > > ubik:~> free -l > total used free shared buffers > cached > Mem: 508592 502948 5644 0 > 7056 25084 > Low: 508592 502948 5644 > High: 0 0 0 > -/+ buffers/cache: 470808 37784 > Swap: 506512 86260 420252 > > > ps is almost empty, but /proc/slabinfo (see attached file for the > complete output) has some weird lines: > > sock_inode_cache 644184 644202 448 9 1 : tunables 54 27 0 : slabdata 71578 71578 0 > > inode_cache 1216 1232 360 11 1 : tunables 54 27 0 : slabdata 112 112 0 : shrinker stat 2103424 2101400 > dentry_cache 647419 649830 128 30 1 : tunables 120 60 0 : slabdata 21661 21661 0 : shrinker stat 5027712 2374200 > > Well it _could_ be caused by an errant application. But if it just started happening, it's more likely the kernel. There are related changes in Dave's tree. You could try `echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' to see if they're reclaimable. - 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/