Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 17:47, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > 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 ? > > > > Tried increasing /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure? (That might not be in > > 2.6.8 though). > > > > > > Yep. This helped shrink the slabs, but we end up eating up lots of > the lowmem in Buffers. Is there a way to shrink buffers ?
It would require some patchwork. Why is it a problem? That memory is reclaimable. > $ cat /proc/meminfo > MemTotal: 16377076 kB > MemFree: 7495824 kB > Buffers: 1081708 kB > Cached: 4162492 kB > SwapCached: 0 kB > Active: 3660756 kB > Inactive: 4473476 kB > HighTotal: 14548952 kB > HighFree: 7489600 kB > LowTotal: 1828124 kB > LowFree: 6224 kB > How'd you get 1.8gig of lowmem? - 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/
