Re: Memory pressure handling with iSCSI

From: Badari Pulavarty
Date: Tue Jul 26 2005 - 16:51:00 EST


On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 14:24 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > ext2 is incredibly better. Machine is very responsive.
> >
>
> OK. Please, always monitor and send /proc/meminfo. I assume that the
> dirty-memory clamping is working OK with ext2 and that perhaps it'll work
> OK with ext3/data=writeback.

Nope. Dirty is still very high..

# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 7143628 kB
MemFree: 33248 kB
Buffers: 8368 kB
Cached: 6789932 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 51316 kB
Inactive: 6769144 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 7143628 kB
LowFree: 33248 kB
SwapTotal: 1048784 kB
SwapFree: 1048780 kB
Dirty: 6605704 kB
Writeback: 168452 kB
Mapped: 49724 kB
Slab: 252200 kB
CommitLimit: 4620596 kB
Committed_AS: 163524 kB
PageTables: 2284 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed: 9888 kB
VmallocChunk: 34359728447 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB

Thanks,
Badari

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