Re: [BUG?] OOM with large cache....(x86_64, 2.6.24-rc3-git1, nohz)

2007-11-20 Thread iank
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:47:32PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Tuesday 20 November 2007 20:09, Ian Kumlien wrote: > > On tis, 2007-11-20 at 15:13 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > It's also used up all your 2.5GB of swap. The output of your `free` shows > > > a fair bit of disk cache there,

Re: [BUG?] OOM with large cache....(x86_64, 2.6.24-rc3-git1, nohz)

2007-11-20 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 20:09, Ian Kumlien wrote: > On tis, 2007-11-20 at 15:13 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > It's also used up all your 2.5GB of swap. The output of your `free` shows > > a fair bit of disk cache there, but it also shows a lot of swap free, > > which isn't the case at

Re: [BUG?] OOM with large cache....(x86_64, 2.6.24-rc3-git1, nohz)

2007-11-20 Thread Ian Kumlien
On tis, 2007-11-20 at 15:13 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Tuesday 20 November 2007 11:59, Ian Kumlien wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have had this before and sent a mail about it. > > > > It seems like the diskcache is still in use and is never shrunk. This > > happened with a odd load though,

Re: [BUG?] OOM with large cache....(x86_64, 2.6.24-rc3-git1, nohz)

2007-11-20 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 18:26, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Tuesday 20 November 2007 16:46, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Unfortunately, we don't show NR_ANON_PAGES in these stats, [...] > > > > sidenote: the way i combat these missing pieces of

Re: [BUG?] OOM with large cache....(x86_64, 2.6.24-rc3-git1, nohz)

2007-11-20 Thread Ian Kumlien
On tis, 2007-11-20 at 15:13 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: On Tuesday 20 November 2007 11:59, Ian Kumlien wrote: Hi, I have had this before and sent a mail about it. It seems like the diskcache is still in use and is never shrunk. This happened with a odd load though, trackerd started

Re: [BUG?] OOM with large cache....(x86_64, 2.6.24-rc3-git1, nohz)

2007-11-20 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 18:26, Nick Piggin wrote: On Tuesday 20 November 2007 16:46, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, we don't show NR_ANON_PAGES in these stats, [...] sidenote: the way i combat these missing pieces of instrumentation in the

Re: [BUG?] OOM with large cache....(x86_64, 2.6.24-rc3-git1, nohz)

2007-11-20 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 20:09, Ian Kumlien wrote: On tis, 2007-11-20 at 15:13 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: It's also used up all your 2.5GB of swap. The output of your `free` shows a fair bit of disk cache there, but it also shows a lot of swap free, which isn't the case at oom-time.

Re: [BUG?] OOM with large cache....(x86_64, 2.6.24-rc3-git1, nohz)

2007-11-20 Thread iank
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:47:32PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: On Tuesday 20 November 2007 20:09, Ian Kumlien wrote: On tis, 2007-11-20 at 15:13 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: It's also used up all your 2.5GB of swap. The output of your `free` shows a fair bit of disk cache there, but it also

Re: [BUG?] OOM with large cache....(x86_64, 2.6.24-rc3-git1, nohz)

2007-11-19 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 16:46, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unfortunately, we don't show NR_ANON_PAGES in these stats, [...] > > sidenote: the way i combat these missing pieces of instrumentation in > the scheduler is to add them immediately to the

Re: [BUG?] OOM with large cache....(x86_64, 2.6.24-rc3-git1, nohz)

2007-11-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, we don't show NR_ANON_PAGES in these stats, [...] sidenote: the way i combat these missing pieces of instrumentation in the scheduler is to add them immediately to the cfs-debug-info.sh script (and to /proc/sched_debug if needed). I.e.

Re: [BUG?] OOM with large cache....(x86_64, 2.6.24-rc3-git1, nohz)

2007-11-19 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 11:59, Ian Kumlien wrote: > Hi, > > I have had this before and sent a mail about it. > > It seems like the diskcache is still in use and is never shrunk. This > happened with a odd load though, trackerd started indexing a bit late > and the other workload which is a

[BUG?] OOM with large cache....(x86_64, 2.6.24-rc3-git1, nohz)

2007-11-19 Thread Ian Kumlien
Hi, I have had this before and sent a mail about it. It seems like the diskcache is still in use and is never shrunk. This happened with a odd load though, trackerd started indexing a bit late and the other workload which is a large bittorrent seed/download. The bittorrent app is the one that

[BUG?] OOM with large cache....(x86_64, 2.6.24-rc3-git1, nohz)

2007-11-19 Thread Ian Kumlien
Hi, I have had this before and sent a mail about it. It seems like the diskcache is still in use and is never shrunk. This happened with a odd load though, trackerd started indexing a bit late and the other workload which is a large bittorrent seed/download. The bittorrent app is the one that

Re: [BUG?] OOM with large cache....(x86_64, 2.6.24-rc3-git1, nohz)

2007-11-19 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 11:59, Ian Kumlien wrote: Hi, I have had this before and sent a mail about it. It seems like the diskcache is still in use and is never shrunk. This happened with a odd load though, trackerd started indexing a bit late and the other workload which is a large

Re: [BUG?] OOM with large cache....(x86_64, 2.6.24-rc3-git1, nohz)

2007-11-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, we don't show NR_ANON_PAGES in these stats, [...] sidenote: the way i combat these missing pieces of instrumentation in the scheduler is to add them immediately to the cfs-debug-info.sh script (and to /proc/sched_debug if needed). I.e. if

Re: [BUG?] OOM with large cache....(x86_64, 2.6.24-rc3-git1, nohz)

2007-11-19 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 16:46, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, we don't show NR_ANON_PAGES in these stats, [...] sidenote: the way i combat these missing pieces of instrumentation in the scheduler is to add them immediately to the