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Message-ID: <20081215011645.GA9707@localhost>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:16:45 +0800
From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To: Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@....muni.cz>
Cc: "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc8 big regression in VM
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 11:58:15AM +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 09:21:15AM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > I cannot reproduce it on 2.6.28-rc7, compiling 2.6.28-rc8...
> >
> > # free; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; free
> > total used free shared buffers cached
> > Mem: 1940 109 1831 0 0 42
> > -/+ buffers/cache: 66 1873
> > Swap: 0 0 0
> > total used free shared buffers cached
> > Mem: 1940 62 1877 0 0 7
> > -/+ buffers/cache: 55 1884
> > Swap: 0 0 0
> >
> > > once the whole memory is eaten by the cache, the system is pretty unusable.
> >
> > What's your kconfig?
>
> attached.
>
> --
> Lukáš Hejtmánek
>Content-Description: ATT14990.config
No drop_caches still works properly here with your kconfig:
# free; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1969 201 1768 0 0 50
-/+ buffers/cache: 151 1818
Swap: 0 0 0
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1969 169 1800 0 0 19
-/+ buffers/cache: 150 1819
Swap: 0 0 0
Lukas, could you apply the attached patch, recompile and do
modprobe filecache
free; cp /proc/filecache /tmp/a;
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
free; cp /proc/filecache /tmp/b;
and send me the outputs a and b?
Thanks,
Fengguang
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