Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937428AbWLEH1R (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 02:27:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S937467AbWLEH1R (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 02:27:17 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.188]:11495 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S937428AbWLEH1Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 02:27:16 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=i7EOGIA4e/Ny7D8z4jROOwRIaimwxIF1qZq8w5AvG21Wocc+58SjtdrKFVqTOAHchnKCBqf3FHZ1yQ/bqFVkNChKDvNJHA+EN0y/hyL/+kY5KwlbdOFj9qS9ntOUbp1bvDJmWRnHdQFd6txcGtWYv4s6hoauzJrc2Nt+SdOOErs= Message-ID: <45751F19.9010208@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:26:17 +0100 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Piggin CC: Aucoin@Houston.RR.com, "'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> <45751955.8010506@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <45751955.8010506@yahoo.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 944 Lines: 29 Nick Piggin wrote: > Aucoin wrote: >> 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? Haven't followed along on this thread, but couldn't help notice the ftruncate there and some similarity to a problem I once experienced myself. Is ext3 involved? If so, maybe: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-mm/2002-11/msg00110.html is still or again being annoying? Rene. - 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/