Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759787AbXIOKxS (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:53:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753504AbXIOKxC (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:53:02 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:56958 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752919AbXIOKxA (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:53:00 -0400 Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:52:28 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Anton Altaparmakov , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Memory Management List , marc.smith@esmail.mcc.edu Subject: Re: VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems? Message-Id: <20070915035228.8b8a7d6d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1189850897.21778.301.camel@twins> References: <1189850897.21778.301.camel@twins> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-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: 1106 Lines: 32 On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:08:17 +0200 Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 08:27 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > Please, don't word wrap log-files, they're hard enough to read without > it :-( > > ( I see people do this more and more often, *WHY*? is that because we > like 80 char lines, in code and email? ) Isn't it? > > Anyway, looks like all of zone_normal is pinned in kernel allocations: > > > Sep 13 15:31:25 escabot Normal free:3648kB min:3744kB low:4680kB high: 5616kB active:0kB inactive:3160kB present:894080kB pages_scanned:5336 all_unreclaimable? yes > > Out of the 870 odd mb only 3 is on the lru. > > Would be grand it you could have a look at slabinfo and the like. Definitely. > > Sep 13 15:31:25 escabot free:1090395 slab:198893 mapped:988 > > pagetables:129 bounce:0 814,665,728 bytes of slab. - 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/