Hi,
Stumbled over a small leak.. and some funny looking numbers.
while true; do swapoff -a; swapon -a; done
procs memory swap io system cpu
r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
0 0 0 0 73120 4392 7984 0 0 0 0 104 12 0 1 99
1 0 0 0 73120 4392 7984 44 0 11 0 117 114 5 8 87
1 0 0 0 72676 4392 7984 364 0 91 0 196 824 32 68 0
1 0 0 0 72436 4392 7984 360 0 90 0 191 818 43 56 1
1 0 0 0 72032 4392 7984 364 0 91 0 192 827 32 68 0
1 0 0 0 71564 4392 7984 364 0 91 0 192 824 37 62 1
1 0 0 0 71316 4392 7984 360 0 90 1 192 821 37 61 2
2 0 0 0 70976 4392 7984 364 0 91 0 192 825 38 61 1
1 0 0 0 70580 4392 7984 364 0 91 0 192 825 40 58 2
1 0 0 0 70124 4392 7984 364 0 91 0 192 826 36 63 1
1 0 0 0 69876 4392 7984 360 0 90 0 191 819 43 54 3
....
procs memory swap io system cpu
r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
3 0 0 0 1980 424 5048 380 0 95 16 211 859 33 66 1
1 0 0 0 2244 424 5040 372 0 93 28 221 860 39 60 1
1 0 0 0 2104 424 5028 376 0 95 26 222 863 32 66 2
1 0 0 0 1944 296 4888 376 0 95 18 214 867 39 60 1
1 0 0 0 2068 144 4732 320 0 88 18 207 741 29 55 16
1 0 0 0 2064 144 4376 368 0 93 18 212 838 33 65 2
1 0 0 0 1956 144 4040 364 0 92 10 203 848 30 70 0
1 0 1 212 1940 120 4104 180 412 76 186 245 468 17 64 19
1 0 1 0 1956 120 3708 192 564 52 255 274 480 18 77 5
1 0 1 0 1956 112 3556 184 0 76 70 235 454 19 72 9
2 0 1 0 1992 112 3388 212 0 56 98 255 494 28 72 0
1 0 1 0 2064 112 3200 220 0 56 91 249 506 19 81 0
2 0 1 0 1940 112 2992 204 0 52 107 260 477 24 76 0
1 0 2 0 2076 112 2908 84 1580 75 433 209 259 10 61 29
1 0 2 0 2064 112 2732 208 0 55 92 247 485 23 74 3
1 0 1 0 1880 112 2684 128 1344 45 403 230 326 12 64 24
1 0 2 0 2040 112 2548 84 1992 55 543 210 233 7 66 27
1 0 1 0 1872 112 2548 172 520 46 220 246 415 20 78 2
1 0 1 0 1872 112 2532 16 3012 41 795 211 101 2 71 27
0 1 1 1488 1740 104 4020 20 2984 45 794 217 124 2 56 42
0 0 0 1268 1804 92 3800 8 2232 19 578 187 76 1 50 50
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Stumbled over a small leak.. and some funny looking numbers.
Numbers aren't funny looking.. bad eyeballs.
> while true; do swapoff -a; swapon -a; done
<snip vmstat of leak>
Leak is because the page allocated in swapon has buffers. Since
it's not on any list, they never get scrubbed off and the page is
leaked. (I killed it here with try_to_free_buffers().. works)
-Mike