Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937463AbWLEHCd (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 02:02:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S937464AbWLEHCd (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 02:02:33 -0500 Received: from smtp102.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.212]:34444 "HELO smtp102.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S937463AbWLEHCc (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 02:02:32 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=jV1tMXPPt3AVIY/WtelD/Ids0MVuyNqvpMyBfMQungBP7qpLiYwekZl8IS8yx8u7uu3wI99rCKp5o+0Lqk8QGy2/LzdwgxfVmOnfgbWHzsXFIdT/gcxOWA61frHSRu79uqZE48+Bsxuto9B5PRGPlgHDEY74FCGGC6ehR5x9jKU= ; X-YMail-OSG: vOpTolsVM1lHYy56SQGqwEcv5x_dwri8ev1Lw6b.03r2sOYU8P_UhSiFnhOseozvphUqB_xMNTIylMZoIlG2NbpZrM6ui02Lu8zTsCzqYExHLdtBswevlPXujqw7avGwDlIkXdk85xaHT48- Message-ID: <45751955.8010506@yahoo.com.au> Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:01:41 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aucoin@Houston.RR.com CC: "'Linus Torvalds'" , "'Tim Schmielau'" , "'Andrew Morton'" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clameter@sgi.com Subject: Re: la la la la ... swappiness References: <200612050641.kB56f7wY018196@ms-smtp-06.texas.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200612050641.kB56f7wY018196@ms-smtp-06.texas.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1008 Lines: 28 Aucoin wrote: >>From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:torvalds@osdl.org] >>I actually suspect you should be _fairly_ close to such a situation > > > We run with min_free_kbytes set around 4k to answer your earlier question. > > >>Louis, exactly how do you allocate that big 1.6GB shared area? > > > Ummm, shm_open, ftruncate, mmap ? Is it a trick question ? The process > responsible for initially setting up the shared area doesn't stay resident. The issue is that the shm pages should show up in the active and inactive lists. But they aren't, and you seem to have about 1542524K unacconted for. Weird. Can you try getting the output of /proc/vmstat as well? -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - 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/