Re: ZONE_NORMAL memory exhausted by 4000 TCP sockets

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Mon Nov 06 2006 - 03:52:22 EST


On Monday 06 November 2006 09:10, Zhao Xiaoming wrote:
>
> Thanks for the answer. I know it's more likely relats to netdev.
> However, it's always a strange thing to have 400~500M bytes LOWMEM
> 'gone' while it's not reported to be occupied by slab. Both meminfo
> and buddyinfo tell the same.
>
> with traffics of 2000 concurrent sessions:

Slab: 293952 kB
So 292 MB used by slab for 2000 sessions.

Expect 600 MB used by slab for 4000 sessions.

So your precious LOWMEM is not gone at all. It *IS* used by SLAB.

You forgot to send
cat /proc/slabinfo

>
> cat /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal: 4136580 kB
> MemFree: 3298460 kB
> Buffers: 4096 kB
> Cached: 21124 kB
> SwapCached: 0 kB
> Active: 47416 kB
> Inactive: 12532 kB
> HighTotal: 3276160 kB
> HighFree: 3214592 kB
> LowTotal: 860420 kB
> LowFree: 83868 kB
> SwapTotal: 0 kB
> SwapFree: 0 kB
> Dirty: 12 kB
> Writeback: 0 kB
> Mapped: 42104 kB
> Slab: 293952 kB
> CommitLimit: 2068288 kB
> Committed_AS: 58892 kB
> PageTables: 1112 kB
> VmallocTotal: 116728 kB
> VmallocUsed: 2940 kB
> VmallocChunk: 110548 kB
> HugePages_Total: 0
> HugePages_Free: 0
> Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
>
>
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