>> > Maybe you didn't cat /dev/sda2 for long enough?
>>
>> Well, it's a multi-gigabyte partition. IIRC, I just ran it until
>> it died with "input/output error" ... which I assumed at the time
>> was the end of the partition, but it should be able to find that
>> without error, so maybe it just ran out of ZONE_NORMAL ;-)
>
> Oh. Well it should have just hit eof. Maybe you have a dud
> sector and it terminated early.
OK, I catted an 18Gb disk completely. The beast still didn't shrink.
larry:~# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 16078192 kB
MemFree: 15043280 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 79152 kB
Cached: 287248 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 263056 kB
Inactive: 105136 kB
HighTotal: 15335424 kB
HighFree: 15039616 kB
LowTotal: 742768 kB
LowFree: 3664 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
Mapped: 3736 kB
Slab: 641352 kB
Reserved: 570000 kB
Committed_AS: 2400 kB
PageTables: 180 kB
ReverseMaps: 2236
ext2_inode_cache 476254 541125 416 60125 60125 1 : 120
dentry_cache 2336272 2336280 160 97345 97345 1 : 248 124
Note that dentry cache seems to have grown overnight ....
I guess I'll add some debug code to the slab cache shrinkers
and try to see what it's doing.
M.
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