On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:55:58AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > Hi, > > We have a 8-way P-III, 16GB RAM running 2.6.8-1. We use this as > our server to keep source code, cscopes and do the builds. > This machine seems to slow down over the time. One thing we > keep noticing is it keeps running out of lowmem. Most of > the lowmem is used for ext3 inode cache + dentry cache + > bufferheads + Buffers. So we did 2:2 split - but it improved > thing, but again run into same issues. > > So, why is these slab cache are not getting purged/shrinked even > under memory pressure ? (I have seen lowmem as low as 6MB). What > can I do to keep the machine healthy ?
How does /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state look when you run low on lowmem ? Thanks Dipankar - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
