Re: pdflush eating a lot of CPU on heavy NFS I/O

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 22:57:05 EST


Brent Cook <busterbcook@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Here are memory stats for the same machine. The other machine's stats
> are similar; there doesn't appear to be anything out of the ordinary and
> its not even touching swap if these numbers are to be believed.
>
> busterb@snowball2:~$ cat /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal: 256992 kB
> MemFree: 139700 kB
> Buffers: 36464 kB
> Cached: 61516 kB
> SwapCached: 0 kB
> Active: 50536 kB
> Inactive: 51672 kB
> HighTotal: 0 kB
> HighFree: 0 kB
> LowTotal: 256992 kB
> LowFree: 139700 kB
> SwapTotal: 514040 kB
> SwapFree: 514040 kB
> Dirty: 1876 kB
> Writeback: 0 kB
> Mapped: 8552 kB
> Slab: 10924 kB
> Committed_AS: 14612 kB
> PageTables: 356 kB
> VmallocTotal: 778164 kB
> VmallocUsed: 2936 kB
> VmallocChunk: 774708 kB

Was this captured while pdflush was misbehaving?
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