I'm trying without loading NTFS module.
Thanks a lot for the reply !
I'll give you the results of my tests.
Regards,
Ludovic LANGE
Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> At 21:30 12/06/2000, Ludovic LANGE wrote:
> >I have a PII, 400MHz, Compaq portable. 128M. 1Go partition for Linux.
> >A redhat 6.2 distro, with a 2.2.16 kernel hand-compiled, + APM + PCMCIA
> >+ NTFS driver .
> >
> >Any clue to track the buffer use ?
>
> NTFS driver is top suspicion. - This is a know problem however nobody has
> managed to come up with an explanation yet of why it happens.
>
> Just to verify its the NTFS driver could you recompile without it or if its
> a module do not insert the module into the kernel and see if the situation
> is drastically improved. - Please let me know the outcome!
>
> >Is there a way to log or print which part of the kernel uses these
> >buffers ?
>
> You can monitor buffers using "vmstat 1". - This will run vmstat and output
> one line every second about how many resources are being used (man vmstat
> for details). - Of course you could set the time from 1 second up to
> something else if you find that more convenient...
>
> This doesn't however tell you who is using resources, just that they are
> being used.
>
> Anton
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