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Date:	Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:50:23 +0100
From:	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@....ac.uk>
To:	marc.smith@...ail.mcc.edu, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems?

Hi,

Thanks for looking into this.

On 15 Sep 2007, at 11:08, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 08:27 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
>
> Please, don't word wrap log-files, they're hard enough to read without
> it :-(
>
> ( I see people do this more and more often, *WHY*? is that because we
> like 80 char lines, in code and email? )

I haven't word wrapped it at all.  The lines appear as whole lines in  
Apple Mail (my email client).  It must be your email client that is  
wrapping them...

> Anyway, looks like all of zone_normal is pinned in kernel allocations:
>
>> Sep 13 15:31:25 escabot Normal free:3648kB min:3744kB low:4680kB  
>> high: 5616kB active:0kB inactive:3160kB present:894080kB  
>> pages_scanned:5336 all_unreclaimable? yes
>
> Out of the 870 odd mb only 3 is on the lru.
>
> Would be grand it you could have a look at slabinfo and the like.

Ok, Marc, would you be able to do the copy to /dev/null again (booted  
without the ram=2G option) and when you see that most of the memory  
has gone run:

cat /proc/slabinfo > slabinfo.txt
cat /proc/meminfo > meminfo.txt
cat /proc/vmstat > vmstat.txt
cat /proc/zoneinfo > zoneinfo.txt

Then quickly abort the copy with "Ctrl+C" so hopefully you will not  
get a kernel panic...

Please send the content of the generated files.  Thanks.

That should hopefully show what in the kernel has eaten all the low  
memory...

Best regards,

	Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/


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