Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-15 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 14:41, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-15 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 14:41, Andrew Morton wrote: 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:

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-14 Thread Badari Pulavarty
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 > > > >

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-14 Thread Andrew Morton
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

Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-14 Thread Andrew Morton
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 > >

Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-14 Thread Badari Pulavarty
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

Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-14 Thread Badari Pulavarty
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

Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-14 Thread Andrew Morton
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

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-14 Thread Andrew Morton
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

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-14 Thread Badari Pulavarty
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

Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Morton
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

Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Morton
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

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-09 Thread Sonny Rao
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:23:49AM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:29:23PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 13:27, Dipankar Sarma wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:55:58AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > We have a

Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-09 Thread Dipankar Sarma
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:29:23PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 13:27, Dipankar Sarma wrote: > > 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

Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-09 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 13:27, Dipankar Sarma wrote: > 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

Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-09 Thread Dipankar Sarma
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

inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-09 Thread Badari Pulavarty
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

inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-09 Thread Badari Pulavarty
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

Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-09 Thread Dipankar Sarma
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

Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-09 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 13:27, Dipankar Sarma wrote: 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

Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-09 Thread Dipankar Sarma
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:29:23PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 13:27, Dipankar Sarma wrote: 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,

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-09 Thread Sonny Rao
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:23:49AM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:29:23PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 13:27, Dipankar Sarma wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:55:58AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: Hi, We have a 8-way P-III, 16GB