From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Con Kolivas <contest@kolivas.net>
Subject: Re: VM trouble, both 2.4 and 2.5
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 01:18:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <02111601184000.00209@7ixe4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DD578D1.1E3134A0@digeo.com>
On Friday 15 November 2002 23:44, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Are you *sure* it happens with ext2? Checked /proc/mounts to ensure
> that /tmp is really ext2?
Darn it!
You are absolutely correct, /tmp was on /, ext3 builtin, ext2 as module, so
it was really still ext3. /bin/mount lied to me. When I moved /tmp to its own
partition, really ext2 this time, things stopped misbehaving. That ext2/ext3
thing was the very first thing I tried, wasted a lot of time :-(
> I could certainly believe that the (weird) ext3 behaviour would upset
> the overcommit beancounting though. Hundreds of megabytes of memory
> on the inactive list but not in pagecache probably looks like anonymous
> memory to the overcommit logic.
Does this bit mean the report was still somewhat useful (for fixing either
ext3 or the overcommit accounting) though, or was it already well-known?
Well, anyways, thanks heaps for the explanation, was going slowly mad here ...
Rene.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-16 0:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-15 22:21 Rene Herman
2002-11-15 22:44 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-16 0:18 ` Rene Herman [this message]
2002-11-16 0:39 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-16 0:59 ` Rene Herman
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