Re: 2.6.28-rc8 big regression in VM

From: Lukas Hejtmanek
Date: Wed Dec 17 2008 - 07:48:56 EST


On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:44:21PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> So the cache memory shrinks a lot.
>
> Maybe your 'free' command is reporting wrong numbers?
> Or it's not a quite reproducible problem?

it depends, I think that 100MB of caches which is not dropped is not quite OK.

While using the system without reboots for a long time, 'undroppable' amount
of caches rises until the system is unusable.

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Lukáš Hejtmánek
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