On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:37:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Florin, can we please see /proc/meminfo as well? > > Also the result of `echo m > /proc/sysrq-trigger'
Hi, It's been a while since this thread died out, but maybe I'm having the same problem. Networking, large part of memory is buffering writes..... In my case I'm using NBD. Oh, /sys/block/nbd0/stat gives: 636 88 5353 1700 991 19554 162272 63156 43 1452000 61802352 I put some debugging stuff in nbd, and it DOES NOT KNOW about the 43 requests that the io scheduler claims are in flight at the driver.... Those requests start a couple of seconds AFTER the whole thing grinds to a halt. I switched from crashing my 512Mb-ram-workstation to my development machine, which has only 64M of RAM. (I got the development machine back up and running after some effort). My rsync (and also "sync" if I call it, or reboot without -n) also gets stuck in D state: <4>[ 622.364000] rsync D 0019C170 0 2456 2455 (NOTLB) <4>[ 622.364000] c04d7c80 00000086 c1f61ba8 0019c170 00000000 00000008 c31048a0 0003382e <4>[ 622.364000] 00000000 c24c9908 00000286 c1092740 c3e12590 c2330a50 c2330b5c 00061a80 <4>[ 622.364000] 8639a400 00000078 c04d7cd0 00000000 c10801b8 c04d7c88 c03082af c0176c48 <4>[ 622.364000] Call Trace: <4>[ 622.364000] [<c03082af>] io_schedule+0xe/0x16 <4>[ 622.364000] [<c0176c48>] sync_buffer+0x0/0x2e <4>[ 622.364000] [<c0176c73>] sync_buffer+0x2b/0x2e <4>[ 622.364000] [<c03083b9>] __wait_on_bit+0x2c/0x51 <4>[ 622.364000] [<c0176c48>] sync_buffer+0x0/0x2e <4>[ 622.364000] [<c0308451>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x73/0x7b <4>[ 622.364000] [<c012970e>] wake_bit_function+0x0/0x3c <4>[ 622.364000] [<c012970e>] wake_bit_function+0x0/0x3c <4>[ 622.364000] [<c0176cce>] __wait_on_buffer+0x22/0x25 <4>[ 622.364000] [<c0198cf0>] ext3_find_entry+0x1aa/0x36f <4>[ 622.364000] [<c01a2324>] journal_dirty_metadata+0x1b6/0x1d3 <4>[ 622.364000] [<c01990e7>] ext3_lookup+0x28/0xc6 <4>[ 622.364000] [<c0161611>] real_lookup+0x53/0xc2 <4>[ 622.364000] [<c0161881>] do_lookup+0x57/0x9d <4>[ 622.364000] [<c0162075>] __link_path_walk+0x7ae/0xb81 <4>[ 622.364000] [<c011cb77>] __do_softirq+0x57/0x83 <4>[ 622.364000] [<c0162485>] link_path_walk+0x3d/0xa0 <4>[ 622.364000] [<c015a4e7>] sys_lchown+0x3c/0x44 <4>[ 622.364000] [<c015a8c7>] get_unused_fd+0xa0/0xbc <4>[ 622.364000] [<c0162840>] do_path_lookup+0x1b7/0x200 <4>[ 622.364000] [<c01628e1>] __path_lookup_intent_open+0x42/0x72 <4>[ 622.364000] [<c0162931>] path_lookup_open+0x20/0x25 <4>[ 622.364000] [<c0163026>] open_namei+0x8c/0x532 <4>[ 622.364000] [<c015a328>] sys_fchmodat+0xac/0xb9 <4>[ 622.364000] [<c015a71b>] do_filp_open+0x25/0x39 <4>[ 622.364000] [<c015a4e7>] sys_lchown+0x3c/0x44 <4>[ 622.364000] [<c015a8c7>] get_unused_fd+0xa0/0xbc <4>[ 622.364000] [<c015a9d5>] do_sys_open+0x42/0xbe <4>[ 622.364000] [<c015aa6b>] sys_open+0x1a/0x1c <4>[ 622.364000] [<c0103dbc>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb <4>[ 622.364000] ======================= ---------------------- <6>[ 871.520000] SysRq : Show Memory <6>[ 871.520000] Mem-info: <4>[ 871.520000] DMA per-cpu: <4>[ 871.520000] CPU 0: Hot: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 <4>[ 871.520000] Normal per-cpu: <4>[ 871.520000] CPU 0: Hot: hi: 6, btch: 1 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 2, btch: 1 usd: 0 <4>[ 871.520000] Active:5632 inactive:6764 dirty:0 writeback:302 unstable:0 <4>[ 871.520000] free:717 slab:2024 mapped:926 pagetables:135 bounce:0 <4>[ 871.520000] DMA free:1104kB min:252kB low:312kB high:376kB active:3600kB inactive:6820kB present:16256kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no <4>[ 871.520000] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 47 <4>[ 871.520000] Normal free:1764kB min:760kB low:948kB high:1140kB active:18928kB inactive:20236kB present:48708kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no <4>[ 871.520000] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 <4>[ 871.520000] DMA: 118*4kB 19*8kB 2*16kB 2*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1104kB <4>[ 871.520000] Normal: 171*4kB 23*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 4*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1764kB <4>[ 871.520000] Swap cache: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0, race 0+0 <4>[ 871.520000] Free swap = 0kB <4>[ 871.520000] Total swap = 0kB <6>[ 871.520000] Free swap: 0kB <6>[ 871.520000] 16368 pages of RAM <6>[ 871.520000] 0 pages of HIGHMEM <6>[ 871.520000] 1044 reserved pages <6>[ 871.520000] 13456 pages shared <6>[ 871.520000] 0 pages swap cached <6>[ 871.520000] 0 pages dirty <6>[ 871.520000] 302 pages writeback <6>[ 871.520000] 926 pages mapped <6>[ 871.520000] 2024 pages slab <6>[ 871.520000] 135 pages pagetables ---------------------- ozon:/home/wolff# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 61296 kB MemFree: 2752 kB Buffers: 2228 kB Cached: 29968 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 22632 kB Inactive: 27056 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Dirty: 0 kB Writeback: 1208 kB AnonPages: 17512 kB Mapped: 3704 kB Slab: 8088 kB SReclaimable: 3656 kB SUnreclaim: 4432 kB PageTables: 552 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB CommitLimit: 30648 kB Committed_AS: 50092 kB VmallocTotal: 974548 kB VmallocUsed: 208 kB VmallocChunk: 974160 kB -- ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** http://www.BitWizard.nl/ ** +31-15-2600998 ** *-- BitWizard writes Linux device drivers for any device you may have! --* Q: It doesn't work. 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