Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 14:11, Andrew Morton wrote: > > 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. > > > > Well, machine pauses for 5-30 seconds for each vi,cscope, write() etc.
Why? > > How'd you get 1.8gig of lowmem? > > 2:2 split > Does a normal kernel exhibit the pauses? - 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/
