Con Kolivas wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 31 Dec 2002 5:08 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Con Kolivas wrote:
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> > > On Saturday 28 Dec 2002 5:16 pm, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > > > Is there something about the filesystem layer or elsewhere in the
> > > > kernel that could decay or fragment over time that only a reboot can
> > > > fix? This would seem to be a bad thing.
> > >
> > > Ok Linus suggested I check slabinfo before and after.
> > >
> > > I ran contest for a few days till I recreated the problem and it did
> > > recur. I don't know how to interpret the information so I'll just dump it
> > > here:
> >
> > Looks OK. Could we see /proc/meminfo and /proc/vmstat?
>
> meminfo:
> MemTotal: 257296 kB
> MemFree: 47468 kB
> Buffers: 27028 kB
> Cached: 7480 kB
> SwapCached: 272 kB
> Active: 154968 kB
> Inactive: 42756 kB
> HighTotal: 0 kB
> HighFree: 0 kB
> LowTotal: 257296 kB
> LowFree: 47468 kB
> SwapTotal: 4194272 kB
> SwapFree: 4193816 kB
> Dirty: 1116 kB
> Writeback: 0 kB
> Mapped: 3740 kB
> Slab: 8564 kB
> Committed_AS: 6580 kB
> PageTables: 196 kB
> ReverseMaps: 1381
>
These numbers _look_ wrong, but ext3 truncate does funny things.
Could you now run a big usemem/fillmem application to try to allocate and
use 200 megs of memory, then resend /proc/meminfo?
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