On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:30:12 +0300 R G <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > After setting up LVS with Direct Routing, I noticed that even there is > absolutely no traffic passing through the LB, > the memory usage grows continuously until the whole RAM is filled. > > Doing some investigations in /proc/slabinfo, I noticed that the RAM is > used by "dentry": > dentry 18933940 18933940 192 20 1 : tunables 120 > 60 8 : slabdata 946697 946697 0 This is the disk caching, this is normal, don't worry! Nothing is wrong... move along please ;-) > The memory can be freed using: > echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > > As soon as the memory is cleared, it starts filling up again. > > I find this behavior very odd and concerning. If anybody has experienced > something similar, or has any ideas, please share. > > OS: CentOS 6.4 64bit > kernel: 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64 > latest patches applied via yum update > > Thank you! > Radu -- Best regards, Jesper Dangaard Brouer MSc.CS, Sr. Network Kernel Developer at Red Hat Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer _______________________________________________ Please read the documentation before posting - it's available at: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [email protected] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
