Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:57:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:57:01 -0400 Received: from mail16.speakeasy.net ([216.254.0.216]:19917 "EHLO mail.speakeasy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:56:58 -0400 Subject: Re: strange swap usage with ac branch of 2.4.19-pre9/10 From: Ed Sweetman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020618103046.7D7BA152D7@oscar.casa.dyndns.org> References: <1024377359.7801.38.camel@psuedomode> <20020618103046.7D7BA152D7@oscar.casa.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 21 Jun 2002 10:56:59 -0400 Message-Id: <1024671419.21535.23.camel@psuedomode> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4580 Lines: 100 I see a growing dentry_cache, but why call it a cache when free shows it as being buffer? This is related to my previous posts about this. Does anyone know what's going on here? total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 629 622 7 0 30 65 -/+ buffers/cache: 525 103 Swap: 1040 70 970 slabinfo - version: 1.1 kmem_cache 60 68 112 2 2 1 uhci_urb_priv 3 62 60 1 1 1 tcp_tw_bucket 0 60 128 0 2 1 tcp_bind_bucket 24 112 32 1 1 1 tcp_open_request 0 59 64 0 1 1 inet_peer_cache 0 0 64 0 0 1 ip_fib_hash 9 112 32 1 1 1 ip_dst_cache 73 120 192 4 6 1 arp_cache 2 30 128 1 1 1 blkdev_requests 6144 6150 128 205 205 1 devfsd_event 0 0 20 0 0 1 journal_head 884 3696 48 22 48 1 revoke_table 10 250 12 1 1 1 revoke_record 0 112 32 0 1 1 dnotify_cache 0 0 20 0 0 1 file_lock_cache 11 42 92 1 1 1 fasync_cache 2 202 16 1 1 1 uid_cache 4 112 32 1 1 1 skbuff_head_cache 160 200 192 10 10 1 sock 271 279 832 31 31 2 sigqueue 0 29 132 0 1 1 kiobuf 0 0 64 0 0 1 cdev_cache 32 295 64 4 5 1 bdev_cache 13 59 64 1 1 1 mnt_cache 21 59 64 1 1 1 inode_cache 35683 55398 512 7914 7914 1 dentry_cache 36016 70500 128 2350 2350 1 filp 2494 2520 128 84 84 1 names_cache 0 3 4096 0 3 1 buffer_head 24531 47190 128 1531 1573 1 mm_struct 83 100 192 5 5 1 vm_area_struct 4688 4770 128 157 159 1 fs_cache 82 118 64 2 2 1 files_cache 82 90 448 10 10 1 signal_act 96 102 1344 33 34 1 size-131072(DMA) 0 0 131072 0 0 32 size-131072 0 0 131072 0 0 32 size-65536(DMA) 0 0 65536 0 0 16 size-65536 1 1 65536 1 1 16 size-32768(DMA) 0 0 32768 0 0 8 size-32768 2 2 32768 2 2 8 size-16384(DMA) 0 0 16384 0 0 4 size-16384 6 8 16384 6 8 4 size-8192(DMA) 0 0 8192 0 0 2 size-8192 6 7 8192 6 7 2 size-4096(DMA) 0 0 4096 0 0 1 size-4096 52 61 4096 52 61 1 size-2048(DMA) 0 0 2048 0 0 1 size-2048 51 74 2048 26 37 1 size-1024(DMA) 0 0 1024 0 0 1 size-1024 89 96 1024 23 24 1 size-512(DMA) 0 0 512 0 0 1 size-512 59 64 512 8 8 1 size-256(DMA) 0 0 256 0 0 1 size-256 145 165 256 10 11 1 size-128(DMA) 4 30 128 1 1 1 size-128 2329 2460 128 79 82 1 size-64(DMA) 0 0 64 0 0 1 size-64 1662 3422 64 39 58 1 size-32(DMA) 4 59 64 1 1 1 size-32 6906 12862 64 160 218 1 total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 660455424 652906496 7548928 0 31686656 97972224 Swap: 1091526656 74035200 1017491456 MemTotal: 644976 kB MemFree: 7372 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 30944 kB Cached: 68284 kB SwapCached: 27392 kB Active: 145192 kB Inact_dirty: 84108 kB Inact_clean: 22196 kB Inact_target: 50296 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 644976 kB LowFree: 7372 kB SwapTotal: 1065944 kB SwapFree: 993644 kB Committed_AS: 339068 kB - 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/